The Financial Times reports that Israel has signalled it is comfortable with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces recapturing areas near the Israeli border on the Golan Heights, in the hope that it will lead to the withdrawal of Iranian forces from the area.

BBC News Online reveals that, according to a top UN official, all the Syrians who fled to the country’s border with Jordan have now returned to their homes. Anders Pedersen, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Jordan, said that “around 150 to 200 people (are) right now at the border”.

On Axios, Bark Ravid of Israel’s Channel 10 News says: “Israel has presented the Trump administration with its ‘red lines’ for the nuclear deal the United States is currently negotiating with Saudi Arabia to build reactors in the kingdom.” He says that Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz met with his US counterpart Rick Perry and presented him with a variety of parameters, including asking the US for a “no surprises policy”.

The Guardian has a feature on Khan al-Ahmar, the Bedouin village at the centre of a legal debate that the Israeli government says is built illegally and should be removed, with its residents rehoused nearby. The piece notes the significance of the village to many Palestinians who see its location as “so strategic that, if they were removed, it might crumble hopes for a future country”.

The Times, the Financial Times and the Independent reports that in Turkey, newly re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decreed that 18,632 people will be removed from their roles in the military, judiciary, academia and the wider civil service, ahead of his inauguration today. He issued a decree dismissing them on Sunday, alleging that they were involved with organisations that acted against the interests of national security.

The Telegraph, Guardian, Independent and BBC News Online report on the arrest of a number of people in Iran for posting videos online via the social networking app Instagram. These include a teenage girl who was arrested for her videos which show her dancing in the streets, which is an illegal activity for women in Iran.

All the Israeli newspapers prominently report the airstrike in Syria last night, assuming it was Israel that attacked the T-4 air force base.

Israel Hayom reports on the US “Gaza first” plan. Senior security officials told the newspaper that any initiative to improve the civil situation in the Gaza Strip would be contingent on the return of the hostages and the bodies of the soldiers being held by Hamas. A Hamas source said: “Trump and Netanyahu can continue trying to make plans for the Gaza Strip. It is all empty words. The Palestinian people will be the only ones to decide their own future.”

On Kan radio news this morning, security officials said Hamas has raised its level of alert and the pace of its military training in advance of a possible conflict with Israel. Israeli security officials believe Hamas would agree to concessions in exchange for an improvement in the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The Qatari mediator in Israel-Hamas talks said a possible deal could involve Israel allowing the 5,000 workers from Gaza to work inside its borders and the flying firebombs, kite and incendiary balloons would cease, as well as the demonstrations next to the border fence. Channel Two News reported that Hamas forces have returned to the border between Gaza and Israel for the first time since the start of deadly clashes in late March. The forces, part of a Hamas unit in charge  of keeping calm on the border and preventing rocket attacks by other factions, were deployed on Sunday to two different points along the border.

Yediot Ahronot report Minister Uri Ariel and Likud MK Sharren Haskel visited the Temple Mount yesterday after Prime Minister Netanyahu lifted the long standing ban on Israeli Knesset members visiting the site.  There had been concerns that the visit could spark anger among Muslim worshipers, but the visit was completed without incidents.

Yediot Ahronot reports the fallout of the joint statement on Poland and the Holocaust, signed by the Israeli and Polish governments. Professor Dina Porat, Chief Historian at Yad Vashem said that the revisions she proposed to the statement had not been accepted.

The Jerusalem Post reports that the British government will launch a review of incitement against Israel and Jews in Palestinian school textbooks.  They quote Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt’s words from a debate on Wednesday in the House of Commons: “There is no place in education for materials or practices that incite young minds toward violence.  Our continued support will come with a continued strong challenge to the Palestinian Authority on education-sector incitement.  We are in the final stages of discussions to take forward a textbook review jointly with other donors.”  The review should be completed by September 2019, he added. The review will be “evidence-based and rigorous”.