The Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, Metro and the online editions of the Guardian, Independent and Financial Times all report on a terror attack in Tel Aviv yesterday evening which killed four Israelis in a popular entertainment district. Two Palestinians from near Hebron in the West Bank posed as customers in a restaurant before opening fire indiscriminately with makeshift guns. There were four fatalities and several seriously injured, while the two terrorists were apprehended. Although no group has taken responsibility for the attack, Hamas’ leader in Gaza Ismael Haniyeh praised the terrorists, saying “glory to the heroes.” A wave of near-daily terror attacks, which began in October killing at least 31 people before last night, had appeared to slow in recent weeks.

The Daily Star reports that police in London carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious car parked near the Israeli Embassy. The nearby Kensington High Street tube station was also temporarily closed due to the incident.

Meanwhile, in Syria, the online editions of the Guardian and Independent both report that a hospital in Aleppo has been forced to close after air strikes by the Assad regime destroyed nearby buildings and facilities, killing at least ten people.

In the Israeli media, all of the top headlines focus on yesterday evening’s deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv. It is the lead story in Yediot Ahronot, Haaretz, Israel Hayom and Maariv, whose headline proclaims “Inferno in the heart of Tel Aviv.” Israel Radio news reports that Hamas praised the attack as “heroic” and has threatened that it will not be the last such attack during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began earlier this week.

Writing in Yediot Ahronot, Nahum Barnea laments that “Our government has no way to end this wave of terrorism.” He also concludes that for both Israelis and Palestinians, “we will go back to our routines within a day or two… That is how we are able to maintain our sanity in a place that is far removed from sanity.”

Meanwhile, military affairs correspondent Alex Fishman also writes in Yediot Ahronot, saying “This is a supreme test for the prime minister, and mainly for the new defence minister [Avigdor Lieberman].” He cautions “We must not react from the gut. The main recommendation to the policy makers is that they drink a lot of cold water before they make decisions that smell of populism.”

In other news, Maariv reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office denied an inference from Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Netanyahu had made no demands to alter the terms set out by the Arab peace initiative, during his meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, and had thus indicated his approval for the plan. Netanyahu’s office said that the issue was simply not discussed between the two leaders and that “Prime Minister Netanyahu has already said before that the initiative would need to be updated.”