The BBC, and Telegraph lead with reports that the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, accusing him of ordering his assassination. Lawyers for Hatice Cengiz and Khashoggi’s human rights group, Democracy for the Arab World Now, said the focus of the lawsuit was to have a US court hold the crown prince liable for the killing and to obtain documents that reveal the truth.

In The Telegraph, Con Coughlin writes that President Donald Trump’s unconventional approach has led to a radical – and mainly successful – overhaul of US foreign policy. He writes that the new peace deals between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain puts rejectionist states like Qatar and Turkey “on the wrong side of history”.

The Independent and Financial Times report on the several agreements signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. In a reminder of the regional dimensions of the UAE’s realignment with Israel, plans were also announced to transport Emirati crude from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean through Israel, in a pipeline that Israel seized from a joint Israeli-Iranian venture after the 1979 revolution brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power in Iran.

The Guardian writes that whoever wins the US Presidential election, Iran’s weakened government may only have a few months to negotiate a revived nuclear deal before facing its own electoral challenge by hardliners who oppose any engagement with the west.

The Times follows the story of one Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS after the terrorist group stormed her village in northern Syria in 2014 and endured years of suffering. The woman’s fate suggests hundreds of captives may have survived ISIS cruelty, but at a terrible cost, writes Anthony Loyd.

A young woman has been arrested in central Iran for “insulting the Islamic hijab”, state media said on Tuesday after a video appeared to show her cycling without a veil, reported in The Guardian. “A person who had recently violated norms and insulted the Islamic veil in this region has been arrested,” Mojataba Raei, the governor of Najafabad, told the IRNA news agency.

The Independent reports that a new report by Amnesty International has claimed female domestic workers in Qatar are being subjected to extreme levels of abuse as they are forced to work more than 18 hours a day.

All the Israeli newspapers report this morning on the discovery of an underground tunnel that ran from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, which was destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces yesterday. The tunnel was exceptionally deep but the IDF discovered its presence with the help of sensors installed in the nearly-completed underground barrier that Israel has been building along its 65-kilometer border with the Gaza Strip. Commenting in Israel Hayom, Yoav Limor remarks that the Israeli security establishment ought to draw two conclusions from the discovery of the tunnel: The first conclusion is that Hamas and the other Palestinian organisations have not abandoned the tactic of tunnelling, but have only modified it to accommodate the changes dictated by the underground barrier. The second conclusion, which Limor describes as being “strategic” in nature, is that Hamas is preparing for eventuality of war. Kan Radio News reports that after the announcement of the Gaza tunnel a rocket was launched from Gaza and intercepted by the Iron Dome system. In retaliation the Israel Air Force attacked underground infrastructure belonging to Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip.

Kan Radio News also reports that the official Syrian news agency SANA reported that a missile was fired from Israeli territory and struck a school in the town of Al-Hurriya, a northern suburb of Quneitra. A regime-affiliated radio station reported that property had sustained damage. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ascribed the missile attack on Quneitra to Israel and said that the missile had been fired at a base for a pro-Iranian militia.

The easing of the lockdown is also reported heavily in the Israeli media. The coronavirus cabinet is scheduled to meet today at 12:00pm local time. Maariv notes that Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Education Minister Yoav Galant will try to reach a compromise on the issue of sending first- and second-graders back to school by the time the meeting begins. The Health Ministry insists that pupils in these age groups attend school only in small groups, whereas the Education Ministry recommends that every group go to school every other week or three days every week. It is unclear how either proposal will allow workplaces to reopen and parents to go back to work.

Kan Radio News reports that the Finance Minister and senior Finance Ministry officials met yesterday with representatives of the international credit rating agencies prior to the publication of Israel’s current ranking amid fears that its credit rating will be lowered. Israel’s ratio of debt to GDP and its projected deficit have increased since the first meetings with the agencies after the first wave of COVID-19 ended. Finance Ministry bureaucrats had to address Israel’s ability to meet the budgetary frameworks during the meetings, which ministry officials described as tense.

Maariv reports that the statement made earlier this week by Civil Service Commissioner Daniel Hershkowitz to allow a search committee to be formed for the next state attorney has played heavily on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision-making process. “From Netanyahu’s perspective, that is the point of no return,” said one political source. Netanyahu has two options: to call for early elections and stop the committee from being formed or to reach an agreement with Gantz over a favourable candidate. However, the second option will likely involve Netanyahu’s consent to have the 2021 state budget approved by the end of December.