A member of a Palestinians militant group, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was killed during a targeted Israeli operation in Nablus, the West Bank. The BBC reports the militant group is a network of militias heavily linked to Fatah, the political party with majority control over the West Bank. Ibrahim al-Nabulsi was the member killed, who Israel accused of leading a cell which had carried out multiple attacks on Israelis in the West Bank in recent times. At least 40 people were injured during the operation.

Israel will soon allow Palestinians in the West Bank to fly out of the area through an Israeli airport, writes the Independent. The Israel Airports Authority will allow Palestinians onto Israeli flights to Turkey from Ramon Airport in Eilat, southern Israel. The flights will take place twice weekly until additional flights are added in September. The move is part of a series of measures that Israel is taking to try and improve the daily lives of Palestinians in the West Bank.

Reuters reports on the current legal battle between Ben and Jerry’s and their parent company, Unilever, over the sale of ice cream in what Ben and Jerry’s call Israeli-occupied territories (the West Bank). A US judge on Monday seemed ‘sceptical’ that Ben and Jerry’s deserved an immediate injunction to restrict the marketing of their brand in the West Bank after Unilever decided to sell their Israeli business to local licensee Avi Zinger.

An article in The Times explains how Israeli forces had been planning a ‘decapitation’ operation against Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) for months, and intelligence sources informed the British newspaper that the IDF were able to exploit fractures in the militant group’s leadership. Israeli intelligence had additionally been closely monitoring the ever-growing influence of Iran over the PIJ, in which the two sides had reportedly become frustrated with each other.

The Telegraph have released a detailed account of the effects the recent Israel-Gaza conflict has had on civilians inside Gaza, focusing specifically on the airstrike on Palestine Tower which was housing Tayseer al-Jabri, a top commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The recent escalation tragically saw innocents lose their lives as well, including a five-year-old girl, and left many others homeless.

In the Israeli media, Yediot Ahronot describes the Labour Party primaries yesterday as “dramatic” as two current ministers are effectively voted out of the party. MK Naama Lazimi came in first place and will be placed second slot on the list behind party leader Merav Michaeli. In third place will be Gilad Kariv, followed by Efrat Rayten, Ram Shefa, Emilie Moatti, Yair Fink and Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin. Current Labour ministers Omer Bar-Lev came and Nachman Shai came in ninth place and 17^th place respectively. Due to new rules, the party list is structured to alternate between men and women.

Also in Yediot Ahronot, tensions are running high within the Likud ahead of today’s primaries. Moran Azulay reviews the power dynamics at play within the Likud, such as the battle for the top five, young candidates versus veteran Likudniks, and who will get a reserved seat from Netanyahu. Voting will be held at polling stations across Israel until 9pm this evening, and a final tally of the results is expected either late tonight or early tomorrow morning.

Israel Hayom reports that President Isaac Herzog spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about Russia’s attempt to ban the Jewish Agency for Israel in Russia. A statement from Herzog’s office described the phone call as “frank and honest”. The Kremlin said the men had agreed that contacts about the Jewish Agency would be continued by both countries. Some 600,000 Russians are eligible to emigrate to Israel because of Jewish heritage, and officials say there has been a rise in applications since the dispute arose.

Most of the media focus on the death of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, the target of an IDF operation in Nablus yesterday morning. Maariv and Israel Hayom military affairs commentators, Tal Lev Ram and Yoav Limor respectively, describe Nabulsi’s reputation on the Palestinian street and in some Israeli media outlets as being somewhat inflated. Limor writes: “Following the developments of the past several days, some media outlets were quick to elevate the status of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, who was killed in Nablus yesterday. They cast him as an important figure in the world of terrorism and drew comparisons between the operation in which he met his death with the operations that took out Islamic Jihad’s senior military commanders, Tayseer Jaabri and Khaled Mansour, who were killed in Operation Breaking Dawn in Gaza this past weekend. But the truth is that there is no comparison between either the circumstances or the individuals in question, and nor is there any room for comparison in terms of the methods used.” Tal Lev Ram writes: “In purely military terms, Nabulsi fell far short of meeting the criteria to qualify as a ‘senior’ terrorist. But in today’s world, in which icons quickly evolve on social media and rapidly become influential, it was clear that Israeli security establishment would take action to try to settle its score with Nablusi, who had successfully eluded it.”

Haaretz reports that representatives of the European Parliament Committee of Inquiry on Pegasus spyware recently visited Israel and learned from NSO personnel that the company has active contracts with 12 of the 27 European Union members. The replies of the Israeli cyber warfare company to the committee’s questions reveal that the company is now working with 22 security and enforcement organisations in the EU. NSO did not disclose which countries are active customers and with which two countries the contract was frozen. Sources in the cyber field figure these countries are Poland and Hungary, which last year were removed from the list of countries to which Israel permits the sale of offensive cyber. The committee was established after the publication of Pegasus last year, and its objective is to create pan-European regulations for the acquisition, import and use of cyber warfare software such as Pegasus.

Ynet reports that Israeli officials believe the chance of Iran returning to the JCPOA is slim because Iranian leaders will not settle for less than a significant improvement in conditions of the nuclear agreement. The EU’s top negotiator on Monday tabled what he called its “final” text to US and Iran after four days of rigorous indirect negotiations in Vienna. Israeli officials said: “There was momentary air of optimism, but it became clear very quickly this was artificial optimism whose aim was to pressure the Iranians into making a decision in hopes that they’ll accept the text as it as-is.” They added: “There’s essentially no change, this is a platform whose goal is to facilitate a return to a deal, but there is no change of strategy on the Iranians’ part. They are not interested in accepting this deal and will struggle to return to an agreement that doesn’t improve the original conditions.”