Both the Guardian and Independent report in their print editions on the fate of a group of Eritrean migrants who are trapped between Egyptian and Israeli border fences. The Independent and Telegraph report that French investigators will exhume the body of Yasser Arafat as part of an inquiry into allegations he was poisoned. The Independent also reports a PLO statement warning that the future of the two-state solution is in danger. The Financial Times and BBC online report on memorial ceremonies to remember the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The FT reports on the fallout from the leak from the Israeli security cabinet, the vote of the US Democratic party on Jerusalem, and on a meeting hosted by Iran with its ‘resistance’ partners from the Palestinian territories and Lebanon to discuss how they will ‘triumph’ over Israel and the US. The Guardian also covers online the debate over Jerusalem in the Democratic Party.

Developments in Syria continue to receive extensive coverage online, with the BBC covering a bombardment on Aleppo by the Syrian military, and the Telegraph reporting Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi’s announcement at a meeting of the Arab League that Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia plan to join Iran in forming a new ‘quartet’ to negotiate an end to the war.

The leading news item in Israel today is the threat by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use polygraph tests to determine who leaked details of a secret intelligence briefing given to the security cabinet on Tuesday. Accounts of the meeting were reported in the press on Wednesday, leading a follow up meeting to be cancelled. Columnists in both Yediot Ahronot and Maariv accuse the Prime Minister of hypocrisy, since both he and Ehud Barak have been responsible for leaks in the past, and have fuelled the debate about whether to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Yediot Ahronot leads with the issue of rising food prices ahead of the forthcoming Jewish holiday season. The paper also covers an interview given by IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz to an army publication in which he opines that Iran will eventually be pressured to give up its ambition for nuclear weapons. Haaretz has a front page story on the fate of a group of Eritrean migrants who are trapped between Israeli and Egyptian border fences, having attempted to enter Israel from the Sinai desert. Makor Rishon reports on its front page the suspicion of security officials that Iran and Hezbollah will attempt to target Israelis overseas during the forthcoming Jewish holiday season. This story was also covered by Channel 2 and Channel 10 evening news last night.

Israeli Radio reports this morning on an airstrike by the Israeli Air Force on armed activists in the Gaza Strip who were preparing to fire rockets at Israel whilst Times of Israel reports on Israeli forces firing this morning on individuals trying to plant explosives on the Israel-Gaza border. Israeli broadcast media also reports this morning on the decision by the Democratic Party convention in the US to restore a sentence to its party platform affirming Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Jerusalem Post covers this story on its front page.

Israeli media also cover a hearing for former prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday, in which he avoided for now any declaration of whether his conviction for breach of trust carries the status of ‘moral turpitude’, which would prevent his return to politics.