The Guardian and the online edition of the Financial Times report multiple Israeli air strikes on strategic terror targets in Gaza on Sunday night in response to a Kassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, which hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot. The rocket landed between two homes but caused no damage. Israel’s response appeared to go beyond the usual initial retaliatory strike to infrequent rocket fire from Gaza since Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

In the wake of ISIS deploying a child suicide bomber in Iraq, John R. Bradley in the Daily Mail notes that other Islamist groups including Hamas have previously used children in terror attacks.

The Guardian online reports that supporters of Scottish football club Celtic have raised in excess of £50,000 for Medical Aid Palestine, after European football’s governing body UEFA began disciplinary proceedings into the widespread display of Palestinian flags at last week’s match against Israeli champions Hapoel Beer Sheva.

The Guardian, Times, Daily Mirror, Metro, Daily Express, Telegraph, Financial Times, Evening Standard and i all recommend this evening’s first viewing on Channel Four of Israeli programme “The Beauty and the Baker”. The Tel Aviv-based series will become the first Hebrew-language drama to be featured on a mainstream UK terrestrial channel.

City AM includes an interview with Chaya Soggot, who runs an ad-tech firm called Woobi in Tel Aviv. Soggot was brought up in the UK.

The Guardian says that the world’s highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge is set to open in China and was designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph online reports that a US military commander has warned the Assad regime in Syria that American forces will defend themselves, after Syrian jets flew near a US special forces base. The Financial Times online says that Tehran has halted Russian air strikes on Syria being launched from Iran after Moscow “showed off” over the arrangement.

In the Israeli media, there is extensive discussion over the nature of Israel’s response to Sunday’s rocket fire from Gaza. Israel launched dozens of sorties at strategic targets, which appeared to be a significantly wider response than usual. Writing in Maariv, Yossi Melman says that it constitutes “a change in Israel’s retaliatory policy in an attempt to dictate new game rules to Hamas”. His Maariv colleague Ben Caspit says that new Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman is declaring that a trickle of rockets will no longer be tolerated.

However, Yediot Ahronot’s military affairs correspondent Alex Fishman disagrees and argues that intelligence assessments on this occasion suggested that Hamas would not exacerbate the situation and so Israel merely took advantage to strengthen its deterrence. Meanwhile, Haaretz suggests that the air strikes were simply a chance to tackle some of Hamas’s operational assets.

The top item in Yediot Ahronot, also covered prominently in Maariv and Haaretz is an apparent breakthrough in the study of melanoma by a research team at Tel Aviv University. The study suggests a better understanding of how melanoma metastises and spreads to other organs, while identifying substances which can prevent this process.