The Telegraph reports that Egypt’s military operations against an ISIS affiliate in the Sinai desert has left 420,000 civilians on the brink of a humanitarian crisis, according to a new report. Research by Human Rights Watch found that residents of four North Sinai cities are facing acute shortages of food, water, and medicine as the military cuts roads and electricity lines as part of its offensive. Children in some areas have been unable to go to school and markets have been left empty as vendors are unable to bring in food supplies, the human rights group said.

BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme discussed President Macron and US President Donald Trump’s meeting today about the Iran nuclear deal and interviewed Jarrett Blanc, the former Deputy Lead Coordinator for Iranian Nuclear deal Implementation, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, the head of the University of Tehran’s American Studies programme and Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East Editor.

The Telegraph, the Times, and the Independent report that Macron will urge Trump to keep America engaged in Syria for the long run on Tuesday as the pair meet for face-to-face talks in the White House. Opening the first state visit of the Trump administration, Macron and his wife Brigitte dined last night with Trump and his wife Melania at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. Macron is hoping to sway the US leader away from his more disruptive “America-first” plans. His main goal is to persuade him to stay with the 2015 Iran nuclear accord which Trump has threatened to abandon on 12 May if the European signatories fail to “fix its terrible flaws”. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is to make the same case when she pays a lower-key visit to Trump on Friday.

The Guardian reports that Western nations want to end the months-long paralysis at the United Nations over Syria by referring the issue of chemical weapons use to the entire UN General Assembly, where Russia’s security council veto would not apply. The idea is to draw on a rarely used route first established in the Cold War to transfer responsibility for aspects of the crisis to the 193-member general assembly.

The Guardian reports that Palestinian diplomats in Geneva have filed a complaint against Israel for what they say are breaches of its obligations under a UN anti-racism treaty, triggering what may be a lengthy and high-profile investigation. The complaint, handed in by the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Ibrahim Khraishi, to the body that monitors the implementation of the UN convention, accuses Israel of policies and practices that have “the common aim of displacing and replacing the Palestinian people, for the purpose of maintaining a colonial occupation”. Violations in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, sought to maintain “a Jewish demographic majority in the entirety of historic Palestine”, the 350-page document claims, of which the Guardian has seen a summary. “Not only is the purpose of the settlement regime discriminatory in itself, it is further maintained by a system of discriminatory measures, severely depriving Palestinians of their fundamental rights,” it adds.

The Daily Mail and the Financial Times reports that the family of Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, a Palestinian man linked to the militant group Hamas who was shot dead in Malaysia, have accused Israeli spies of carrying out an assassination halfway across the world — a claim Israel rejects. On Monday, Malaysian police released images of two men they said were suspects in the shooting of Batsh, 35, who was gunned down by two men on a street near his home in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday morning. Mohamad Fuzi, Malaysia’s Inspector General of police, told reporters that both suspects were riding motorcycles and that 14 bullets were retrieved from Batsh’s body following a postmortem. Fuzi also said that the two men were fair-skinned and had “European or Middle Eastern features”, and that authorities were unable to say whether they were still in Malaysia.

The Independent reports that Russia could supply Syria with advanced S-300 missile systems in the near future, Russian military sources have told the Kommersant newspaper, warning Israel would “suffer catastrophic consequences” if it attacked the system. The daily newspaper said experts believed Israel would react negatively to any decision to supply the missiles to Syria, and might bomb the area where they would be deployed. A Russian diplomat who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said Israel has asked Moscow not to supply the Syrian military with the S-300s.

BBC News Online reports that Israeli police have arrested a Bedouin Arab bridegroom after masked men dressed in black drove around a village firing rifles to celebrate his wedding. Video footage that went viral last week showed revellers shooting from vehicles on the streets of Segev Shalom, in the Negev desert. One MP said she thought it was “an IS convoy somewhere in the Middle East”. The groom, who is reportedly in his 20s, was detained on Sunday night and was due in court on Monday. A police statement said officers were continuing to search for other suspects “involved in the dangerous incident”. The Times of Israel reported that a father and son had also been held for questioning and that vehicles believed to have been used had been confiscated.

The Daily Mail reports that Trump bluntly asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a private call whether he legitimately cares about peace. The comment came in the context of new Israeli settlement construction – a charged issue that led to strain in the Obama Administration’s relations with the Israeli government. Trump made the comment in a phone call with Netanyahu last year, Axios reported. The White House did not deny the report when the publication presented the details.

The Daily Mail reports that Angela Merkel has denounced the emergence of “another form of anti-Semitism” from refugees of Arab origin in Germany. The German Chancellor made the remarks in an interview with Israeli television on Sunday after an alleged antisemitic attack in Berlin on Tuesday provoked uproar. Merkel also reaffirmed that Israel’s security was a central concern for Germany because of its “eternal responsibility” for the Holocaust.

The Evening Standard and the Sun report on Jeremy Corbyn is set to meet with Jewish leaders for talks after weeks of turmoil over his handling of antisemitism in the Labour party. Organisations representing Jewish communities will call on Corbyn to use his “personal authority” to drive through changes to wipe out the problem in the party. It comes after Labour MPs spoke out about antisemitism in the party during a debate in Parliament and warned “enough is enough”. Labour MP Chuka Umunna wrote a column published in the Independent which argued that “Labour can’t talk with credibility about racism until we tackle the antisemitism in [the party]”.

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Netanyahu made a fresh call Monday for an overhaul of the Iran nuclear deal as US President Donald Trump’s deadline for further Iranian concessions edged closer. “Israel will not allow regimes that seek our annihilation to acquire nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu told an audience of diplomats in a speech in Jerusalem. “This is why this deal has to be either fully fixed or fully nixed,” he said

The Daily Mail via AFP reports that Doctors have amputated the leg of a Palestinian boy whose image went viral after he was shot by Israeli troops in clashes on the Gaza border with Israel. A picture of 12-year-old Abdel Rahman Nawfal screaming in pain after being shot was widely shared on Palestinian and Arabic social media last week after he was shot near the border fence.

Yediot Ahronot focuses on the dangers surrounding upcoming events in May with a headline ‘Bracing for the month of May’. It quotes Amos Yadlin, Director of the Institute for National Security Studies, who said: “May has not been so dangerous since 1967 and 1973. We are not facing war, but there are a number of events that could develop into this, and all of them will take place between May 12-15: the decision of the United States whether to withdraw from the nuclear agreement; moving the US embassy to Jerusalem; the intensification of the security events in the Gaza border and more.” Against the backdrop of the regional tension, Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of the US Central Command, is now visiting Israel for the first time, and holding meetings with top security officials. The paper also announces that the US intends to send a huge delegation to Israel for the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem, which will apparently be headed by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and will also include Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

Writing on Gaza, Alex Fishman in Yediot Ahronot reports that Palestinians have erected tents at a distance of 100-200 metres from the Gaza border. Until recently, the five staging areas, in which large tents were set up, were located at a distance of over 700 metres [from the fence]. He adds that “the main goal of the riots, orchestrated by Hamas, has been and remains to breach the fence, enabling hundreds and thousands of civilians to run into Israeli territory. This is the ‘victory image’ that Hamas seeks to achieve on the occasion of Nakba Day on May 15. Everything that will happen until then is designed to preserve a momentum of riots and attract public attention, including global public attention.”

In related news, Israel Hayom reports that an internal rift within Hamas is preventing a deal to return the bodies of Israelis.

Haaretz and Maariv report that Russia has warned Israel against attacking the S-300 Anti-Aircraft System that it is planning to transfer to the regime.  In 2010, before the civil war erupted in Syria, Russia was poised to provide the S-300 system to Syria, but after a request from Israel and the US, it did not do this. Conversely, Moscow did provide these systems to Iran in wake of threats made by Israel and the US to attack its nuclear facilities. Today, both the S-300 as well as the more advanced S-400 missiles are deployed in Syria and are operated by the Russians to defend its military presence. The S-300 system is designed to operate both against planes as well as against ballistic missiles in ranges of hundreds of kilometres and at an altitude of dozens of kilometres.

Maariv, Haaretz, Israel Hayom and Jerusalem Post all focus on the debate regarding the so-called override clause. The new law would allow the Knesset to override Supreme Court decisions and re-introduce laws that the Court had disqualified. Haaretz reports that Chief Justice Esther Hayut is conditioning a meeting with Netanyahu on delaying the bill; Maariv reports that Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel Esther Hayut will demand the requirement of a 70 MK majority to pass the override clause; Israel Hayom reports that 17 of 22 Ministers support the bill; and the Jerusalem Post reports that Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked from the Jewish Home party have threatened to cease voting with the coalition if the bill does not come to a vote within the next 10 days.