The Telegraph, BBC, Guardian, The Times and the Independent report on an explosion at a Syrian weapons depot that killed 39 people, including 12 children. The Telegraph reports that the explosion occurred in the north-western Syrian town of Sarmarda, near the provincial capital Idlib City. Head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman said, a previous death toll of 12 increased after more bodies were retrieved from the rubble. Rahman also said that most of those killed were family members of fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an alliance led by jihadists from Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate. The BBC reports that the building in the Sarmada town is said to have contained munitions belonging to an arms trafficker. The Guardian reports that most of Idlib is controlled by rebels and HTS, but the Islamic State jihadist group also has sleeper cells in the area. The Times reports that the arms dump is reported to have been in the basement of one of the houses, although it is unclear what sparked the explosion. The Independent reports that White Helmets rescuer Hatem Abu Marwan said “buildings full of civilians were reduced to rubble.” Idlib is the last major rebel stronghold in war-torn Syria and is widely expected to be the next target which the country’s armed forces attempt to retake.

The Guardian and the Independent report on Israeli Arabs protesting the Israel’s Nation-State Law. The Guardian reports that thousands of Arab Israelis and their supporters protested at a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday against the law. At Saturday’s rally, protesters accused the Israeli government of being an “apartheid regime”, shouting in Hebrew and in Arabic, “Equality, equality” and “Apartheid will not pass”. Ayman Odeh, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament, said “This is the first time that tens of thousands of Arabs have come to Tel Aviv with Jewish democratic groups. “They came to say this is not the end of the demonstrations, but the first serious demonstration against the Nation-State law.”

The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Independent report on Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to a cemetery containing memorials to Palestinian terrorists. The Times reports that photographs emerged of Corbyn holding a wreath near the graves of some of those responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. They were taken in 2014 during a trip to Tunisia, a year before he became Labour leader. Labour claimed that Corbyn had been paying his respects to the victims of a 1985 Israeli airstrike on Palestinian Liberation Organisation offices in Tunis. The Telegraph reports that UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid said Corbyn should resign. Jonathan Goldstein, the chair of Jewish Leadership Council said: “This man is not fit to be a member of Parliament” Marie van der Zyl, the President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: “If true, reports of Jeremy Corbyn honouring terrorists at a memorial service are chillingly revealing. You are judged by the company you keep.”

The Daily Mail reports that widows of Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics last night condemned Jeremy Corbyn’s visit and demanded an apology for what they described as an ‘act of maliciousness, cruelty and stupidity’. Corbyn has refused to answer key questions about the visit to a cemetery where members of Black September – the terror group that killed 11 Israelis at the 1972 Olympics – are buried. Corbyn wrote shortly after the trip that wreaths had been laid not just for the 1985 victims but ‘on the graves of others killed by Mossad’. The Independent reports that Corbyn said at that time: “I was in Tunisia at a Palestinian conference and I spoke at that Palestinian conference and I laid a wreath to all those that had died in the air attack that took place on Tunis, on the headquarters of the Palestinian organisations there.”

The Times, Reuters, Express, Telegraph and the FT report on Iranian sanctions. The Times reports that U.S. ambassador Woody Johnson said Britain should split with the EU over Iranian sanctions and back US President Donald Trump. Johnson said: “America is turning up the pressure and we want the UK by our side. We are asking global Britain to use its considerable diplomatic power and influence and join us.” Reuters reports Johnson criticised Tehran for funding “proxy wars and malign activities” instead of investing in its economy. He said Iran needed to make tangible and sustained changes to behave like a normal country. He also said: “It is time to move on from the flawed 2015 deal. We are asking global Britain to use its considerable diplomatic power and influence and join us as we lead a concerted global effort towards a genuinely comprehensive agreement.”

The Express and the Telegraph report that Iranians have protested against their government over Trump’s sanctions. Demonstrators in Tehran expressed their anger at the Iranian administration, criticising the government over “widespread corruption, crippling inflation, and injustice”. The Telegraph reports that protesters chanted “Death to Khamenei” and “Death to inflation.” In an opinion article, the FT reports that Tehran’s currency, the rial, has lost more than half its value against the dollar on unofficial markets this year and inflation is soaring. The US government says its goal in re-imposing sanctions is to force Iran to make deeper concessions on its nuclear programme and to stop its military and political intervention in neighbouring countries — in particular Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

The FT, The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, BBC and the Evening Standard report on the economic crisis facing Turkey after the county’s currency continued to fall. The Telegraph reports that the lira continued its freefall to record lows, down by 5.8 per cent. Berat Albayrak, the country’s finance minister, attempted to allay investors’ concerns by promising to roll out an “action plan” to tackle the crisis. The Times reports that President Recip Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey accused the US last night of plotting to destabilise the country and pledged to search for new international allies and trading partners. Erdogan told a crowd in the city of Trabzon that US sanctions were part of an “economic war” against the country. The Turkish lira lost 17 per cent of its value against the dollar on Friday as talks over freeing a US evangelical pastor Andrew Bunson imprisoned in Turkey stalled. Consequently, Trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.

The Guardian reports that investors are increasingly concerned about the $350bn in foreign debt held by Turkish banks and companies, and their ability to finance it as the currency weakens and inflation soars. As the crisis has deepened, Turkish consumers have faced rising food, fuel and medicine prices. The inflation rate is expected to jump rapidly from the current 15.4% official rate. The BBC reports that Turkey’s central bank has said it is ready to take “all necessary measures” to ensure financial stability after the collapse of the lira. It has vowed to provide banks with “all the liquidity the banks need”. The Evening Standard reports that the lira’s value has fallen more than 40% since the start of the year.

The Daily Mail reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded a total Gaza ceasefire. During a cabinet meeting Netanyahu said that “we are in the midst of a campaign against terror in Gaza”. “Our demand is clear: a total ceasefire. We shall not be satisfied with less than that,” he added. An informal truce reached on Thursday night has largely held despite the deaths of three Palestinians since then from Israeli army fire during border protests and clashes.

Reuters and the Independent report on clashes that occurred between armed militants and Jordanian security forces. Reuters reports that security forces pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the wreckage of a building in Salt on Sunday following a shoot-out in which four security personnel were also killed. Jordanian forces were searching of those responsible for a bomb attack on a police van on Friday. The Independent reports that the Hala Akhbar news website, linked to Jordan’s military, said the suspects were Jordanians and that the cell had planned to attack security installations and other sensitive targets. The site said the suspects had been armed with explosives, grenades and weapons.

Haaretz and Israel Hayom report that Netanyahu has warned that if no agreement is reached on the military conscription law he will set a date for elections. Yediot Ahronot writes that “although Netanyahu still has a coalition [to pass the bill] even without Litzman and his Hasidic branch [of the United Torah Judaism party], it seems that if the bill is not approved by their rabbis, there will be no choice but to hold elections. Last week the High Court of Justice gave the political establishment four months to resolve the crisis, which the politicians consider a very brief amount of time, further increasing the chances of moving up elections and holding them between January and March 2019.”

Maariv reports that the Security Cabinet convened Sunday night for the third time in the space of a week to discuss Gaza. Israeli officials have been waiting to see whether Egypt’s mediation efforts will yield results and how the talks among the various Palestinian factions might lead to a comprehensive arrangement between Israel and Hamas. On the agenda is what is being referred to as a “small arrangement” involving an end to violence by Hamas, including incendiary kites and balloons, in exchange for which Israel will ease restrictions on the passage of goods over the border. However, the paper reports that a full-scale truce arrangement and a prisoner exchange is currently not on the table.

The Times of Israel, YNET, Maariv and Army Radio report that the Kan public broadcaster warned Netanyahu that it would pull out of hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest if the government does not help it with a $14 million security guarantee. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister, Gil Omer, head of the broadcaster wrote that “This is the point of no return. Afterwards, if the required deposit is not given to the EBU, it will be impossible to change the situation and the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will not be able to be held in Israel”.

Israel Hayom reports that Israeli officials urged the US administration not to cut its funding for UNRWA’s Gaza operations, fearing that that could push Gaza over the brink into financial collapse. According to the report, Israeli representatives told Americans officials that they “were not opposed to scaling back UNRWA’s activity in Judea and Samaria, since other organisations could fill the void left by UNRWA there, but they did ask that the United States not cut its financial aid to UNRWA’s Gaza operations since there was no agency that might fill the role it plays as one of the major employers and sources of food in the Gaza Strip.”

The papers’ opinion pages discuss the demonstration on Saturday night in Tel Aviv and the flying of Palestinian flags by some of the participants. In Yedioth Ahronot, Ben-Dror Yemini writes: “There wasn’t one demonstration in Tel Aviv, but two. The first was held by the people who raised the Palestinian flag, mainly as an act of defiance. They seek neither equality nor coexistence, but to reject Israel’s right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The second demonstration was held by the people who were protesting against discrimination and were fighting for equality, and they think that the nation-state law is going to worsen their situation. The former want to deepen the conflict; the latter want to change things by means of legitimate protest… Despite the leadership, despite the screaming, we need to listen to the moderates – and they exist. We need to be forthcoming with the people who demand equality and integration.”

In Israel Hayom, Chaim Shine writes that the Palestinian flags at the demonstration “are the true narrative, which no amount of words, sham or mountains of hypocrisy can hide. The demonstrators in the square are fighting for the right to return to Sheikh Munis (Tel Aviv University), Hirbet Azon (Raanana), and the areas of the Abu-Kishah clan in Ramat Hasharon. To turn Nakba Day into their Day of Independence. The struggle is over the 1948 lines, not the 1967 lines. The demonstrators in the square, led by the Monitoring Committee—Ayman Ouda, Hanin Zuabi and Zahalka – are telling their version of the truth; it’s worth listening to, and to stop the march of stupidity of the innocence of the left.”

Kan Radio News and Maariv report that several dozen residents of southern Israel demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against what they described as the government’s inept handling of the situation and the ongoing arson terrorism. The demonstrators, who gathered outside the Hashalom train station, played a rising and falling siren, lay down on the street and called out: We won’t be cannon fodder.  Eshkol Regional Council chairman Gadi Yarkoni said: “To our great distress, these days a return to normal in the Gaza Periphery is a return to launching incendiary balloons and fires. We are not prepared, under any circumstances, to accept the threat as a legitimate way of life, as was the case with the Kassam rocket fire on our territory.”