Reuters reports on protests at Khan al-Ahmar, the Bedouin village in the West Bank set to be demolished by Israel, following a long-running legal battle. The demolition did not begin yesterday, but Israeli soldiers did leave a land confiscation notice.

The Financial Times reports on recruitment problems in the Israeli hi-tech sector. The article says that there is both an increasing shortage of Israeli talent and issues securing work visas for foreign tech engineers.

The Times, and BBC News Online report on the death of Hudhayfah al-Badri, the son of ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi. He was killed in Syria on a “commando” mission fighting the “Nusayriyyah” and the Russians around a thermal power station in Homs province. Al-Badri is thought to have been 14 or 15 years old.

The Times has an ‘In depth’ feature on the “water crisis in the Middle East”, looking at the serious situation in countries like Iraq and Syria.

The Guardian outlines the growing safety fears for 270,000 Syrians who have been displaced fleeing the fighting in Daraa. It reports that officials believe that 160,000 of those have headed to the Golan Heights and the Israeli border.

The Guardian has a feature about a coding academy in Gaza City, which aims to teach students how to code and launch tech-startups and is the first of its kind in the Gaza strip. The academy is funded by charities such as Mercy Corps and Google.

The Independent reports that in Saudi Arabia a woman exercising her new right to drive was reportedly threatened and harassed by young men who then set her car on fire. Salma al Shari, also known as Salma al Barakati told the Okaz newspaper that the men told her to stop driving because it was “against the will of God”.

In the Israeli media, Yediot Ahronot leads with the headline,”One hundred days of fires”. They include several accounts of the damage inflicted by the flying firebombs, the incendiary kites and balloons flown out of the Gaza Strip. They quote Aharon Ariel Lavi of Moshav Shuva, who said  “I’m not one to complain. There are no chinks in my armour and there won’t be any, but unfortunately, there isn’t policy for the Gaza Strip. If there’s no political solution, there’s no point in going to war again…We can’t accept this threat.”  The paper also quotes a security official saying: “They didn’t think it would work for them, but it’s caught on well from their standpoint. They’re really full of themselves.”

Haaretz reports on UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov who condemned preparations to demolish the Bedouin outpost of Khan al-Ahmar near Kfar Adumim. Mladenov called on Israel to stop plans for relocating Bedouin communities in the West Bank and said that such actions were contrary to international law.  A statement that was issued by the French Foreign Ministry noted that the villages were located in an area that is vital for the territorial contiguity of a future Palestinian state. Britain, France and Ireland also criticised the proposed demolition.

Maariv reports this morning that the Israeli security establishment anticipates that the Syrian army will successfully regain control of southern Syria, including the area next to the Israeli border, within a matter of weeks. The Syrian army has reportedly advanced more swiftly than anticipated in the Daraa district, meeting scant resistance in the rural area outside the city of Daraa. Similarly, Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom report that Israeli officials anticipate that the Syrian army might move in to take the Quneitra district within a matter of days. The papers note that the armistice agreement that was signed by Israel and Syria in 1974 prohibits military troops from entering the city of Quneitra, which is just three kilometres from the Israeli border, within the buffer zone created by the armistice. An unnamed Israeli security official is quoted by Maariv as saying: “We intend to insist on every detail from the armistice agreement in all that pertains to the buffer zone and the additional strips of reduced armaments on the Syrian Golan, which stipulates precisely the number of Syrian military troops that are permitted to be at different distances from the border. Anything that goes beyond the agreement is a target from our perspective; tanks, soldiers or other means. Obviously, surface-to-surface missiles won’t be deployed at a distance of less than 25 kilometres from our border.”

Maariv reports the trial of Gonen Segev, the disgraced former cabinet minister charged with espionage, aiding the enemy in wartime and giving information to the enemy.  Segev is alleged to have been recruited by Iranian intelligence in Nigeria in 2012, and was taken into custody after he returned to Israel in May this year. A news blackout on the indictment was partially lifted yesterday, but most of the details are remain classified.

Israel Hayom includes a report from Al-Hayat that reveals Germany is helping Israel’s indirect talks with Hamas about a prisoner exchange and returning missing Israelis. Germany reportedly started meeting and talking with Hamas representatives about this issue more than three years ago, and German envoys surreptitiously have visited the Gaza Strip several times. The report has not been confirmed by any other source.

Israel Hayom sent a reporter to cover the news conference in Vienna, between Iranian President Rouhani and the Austrian Chancellor Kurtz. The paper notes the Iranian president came to fight for the agreement, but it was clear to everyone present in the hall, this was a farewell event to Obama’s policy. They refer to the event as a “funeral process for the nuclear deal”. When Chancellor Kurtz said, “Israel’s right to exist is unquestionable”, Rouhani apparently turned pale.