The Express and the Daily Mail report on the violence on the Gaza-Israel border. The Express reports that on Sunday a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Affairs Ministry said Israel announced it was closing the only operating crossing for people to travel between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The decision follows continuing protests by Palestinians on the border, which saw two protestors shot dead by Israeli forces on Friday. The Daily Mail reports that Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he’s closing the country’s main personnel crossing with Gaza in response to recent violence along the frontier. Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire and another 60 were wounded during violent protests on Friday amid ongoing Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire. The protesters threw rocks and firebombs at Israeli troops from behind clouds of black smoke from burning tyres. The soldiers responded with tear gas and live fire.

The Independent and the Daily Mail report that Israel’s Supreme Court has doubled the sentence of a border police officer who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian teenager. Two of three judges decided to increase Ben Dery’s sentence for killing Nadim Nuwara, 17, at a protest near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah in 2014. Dery was jailed in April for causing death through negligence, a charge that was downgraded from manslaughter under a plea agreement. He was also fined 50,000 shekels (£10,700). Dery shot dead Nadim during a demonstration outside Israel’s Ofer prison, near the Palestinian town of Baituniya. The Daily Mail reports that the court ruled Nuwara did not pose an immediate threat to Deri’s life, and that he negligently loaded live rounds instead of rubber coated bullets typically used to disperse demonstrations.

The Daily Mail and Reuters report that U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton arrived in Israel for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Daily Mail reports that Bolton is meeting Netanyahu at a time of shared concerns over Syria, Iran and the Gaza Strip. Bolton said that “the Iran nuclear weapons programme, the ballistic missile programmes are right at the top of the list” of global challenges. Netanyahu told Bolton the most important issue he was looking forward to discussing was “how to continue to roll back Iran’s aggression in the region and to make sure that they never have a nuclear weapon.” Reuters reports that Bolton told ABC News in an interview earlier that the United States, Israel and Russia shared the objective of removing Iranian and Iranian-led forces from Syria, and ending Iran’s backing of the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.

The Telegraph and the Daily Mail report that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attended a conference with a convicted Hamas terrorist. The Telegraph reports that Corbyn hosted a panel discussion at a conference attended by a number of senior Hamas officials, including Husam Badran, who was given a 17-year sentence for his involvement in terrorist atrocities committed during the Second Intifada between 2001 and 2002. Corbyn was also joined at the conference by Khalid Mishaal, the former political leader of Hamas, who is on a UK sanctions list, and Dr Abdul Aziz Umar, who received seven life sentences for aiding in the preparation of a suicide attack. Footage reveals that all three men spoke at the two-day conference in Doha, entitled “Seminar on Palestinian Refugees in the Arab World”. The Daily Mail reports that at the time, Labour insisted he was ‘in no way supporting or endorsing’ the Palestinian prisoners’ actions and only used the word “brother” as it was “a respectful term for a male Muslim”. Days after the event in April 2012, Mr Corbyn wrote in the Morning Star newspaper: “The conference…was attended by delegates who had recently been released from prison in return for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Their contribution was fascinating and electrifying.”

In The Times, Jewish Chronicle Editor Stephen Pollard writes that “Corbyn would threaten our national security”. Pollard comments that focusing on Corbyn’s relationship with the Israel/Palestine conflict is wrong and that efforts should be focused on concentrating on the UK’s relations with Gulf States should Corbyn take power. Pollard writes that “these countries have many fissiparous Islamist enemies and one common enemy: Iran” and that “they believe that under a Corbyn government, we would have both a prime minister and key aides who were, at the very least, sympathetic to Iran.”

The Daily Mail reports that Labour has appointed a senior official who has called for a convicted Palestinian murderer to be freed from an Israeli jail. Fadel Takrouri, the party’s new West Midlands regional director, was pictured at an event calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti is serving five life sentences for his involvement in the murder of Israelis and being a member of a terror group. Tory MP Andrew Percy said: “This is a further example of the extremist takeover of the Labour Party. Under Jeremy Corbyn, it seems supporting murderers and terrorists is good for your career prospects.”

Reuters reports that Iran has said no OPEC member can take over its share of oil exports. In a meeting with OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, a senior Iranian diplomat urged him to keep the group out of politics. Iran’s oil ministry news agency SHANA quoted Kazem Gharibabadi, the permanent envoy to Vienna-based international organisations as saying: “No country is allowed to take over the share of other members for production and exports of oil under any circumstance, and the OPEC Ministerial Conference has not issued any licence for such actions.” The comments express Tehran’s concern about Saudi Arabia’s offer to pump more oil in the face of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil sales.

Maariv reports that security officials believe Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas is likely to take even stronger steps against the Hamas government in Gaza and to make further cuts in the money that he transfers to the Gaza Strip, with the poor relations between Hamas and the PA liable to affect the security situation in the south and the failure of reconciliation attempts directly impacting the chances of reaching a truce arrangement between Israel and Hamas.

Writing in Yediot Ahronot on Sunday, Giora Eiland explains: “The primary factor that has made the truce arrangement possible is the change in the Egyptian position. Until recently, the Egyptians were demanding that the Hamas government, as part of the truce arrangement, consent to transfer its powers to the Palestinian Authority, including in the sphere of security, as part of the national reconciliation process. Hamas could not have bitten that bullet under any circumstances. And so, even though Israel and Hamas have a common interest in calling a truce, that was unattainable because of the demand that came jointly from Cairo and Ramallah.” The Egyptians recently conceded this demand, and instead they have settled for Hamas’s pledging to stop providing aid to the branch of ISIS that is active in northern Sinai. That is a price that Hamas can accept.

Maariv reports that several Zionist Union MKs have demanded that the Hamas truce agreement is given Knesset approval.  “Why is Bibi hiding the agreement with Hamas from the public?” MK Saleh Saad asked. “What is he afraid of? The agreement that Egypt is brokering between Israel and Hamas constitutes a sharp change in the policy of the Israeli government, which to date has refused to recognise Hamas as the sovereign in the Gaza Strip or as a legitimate political and diplomatic organisation.” MK Ksenia Svetlova of Zionist Union said: “Should Israel promote a truce arrangement with Hamas, it is possible that doing so will strengthen the extremists and weaken the moderates in the region, as well as give a tailwind to radical Islam, which has suffered serious blows in Egypt and other Arab states. I demand that the agreement be placed on the Knesset’s agenda. As elected officials, it is our obligation to examine the crucial document well, before it is signed and becomes a reality”

Kan Radio News, Maariv and Haaretz report that Bolton, arrived in Israel yesterday to discuss the situation in Syria and the presence of the Iranian troops there, as well as the security situation in the south. Bolton already met with Netanyahu for dinner at the official residence on Balfour Street. Israel Hayom leads with Bolton’s statement that the US goal is to get Iran out of Syria.

Haaretz leads with a feature by Amos Harel which argues that in 2011-12 Israel worked to convince the Obama White House that it was seriously considering a unilateral attack on Iran.

Haaretz and Maariv report that Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Sheldon Adelson attended the inauguration ceremony for the Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Medical School at Ariel University. The event was also attended by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman. Maariv notes that relations between the Adelson family and prime minister Netanyahu have recently cooled.

Kan Radio News reports that amember of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party blamed Jewish bankers for the crisis with the Turkish lira. Burhan Kuzu, a founding member of the party led by Turkish President Recip Tayipp Erdogan, tweeted that the United States was run by families of Jewish bankers and that the world was actually run by the banknotes printed by families of Jewish Zionist bankers.

Army Radio and Haaretz report that PepsiCo has agreed to acquire the Israeli company SodaStream for more than $3bn. SodaStream founder Daniel Birnbaum said: “The acquisition proves that Israeli pride is not only high-tech, but also real Israeli industry. I am happy that operations will remain in Israel and will even expand with the construction of a new plant in the Negev.”

Army Radio also reports on the death of journalist and long-time peace activist Uri Avnery at the age of 94. Avnery was one of the most prominent figures in the history of Israeli journalism and was one of the founders of Gush Shalom. Rivlin eulogized Avnery and said: We had sharp differences of opinion, but they shrank in view of the aspiration to build a free and steadfast society here. May his memory be blessed.

Over the weekend, Israeli media reported that police officers fatally shot an Arab Israeli who attempted to stab them in the Old City of Jerusalem. Ahmed Mohammed Mahamid’s family asserted that he was mentally ill and criticised the police’s use of deadly force.