The Times, Sun, i and the online editions of the Telegraph, Guardian and Independent all report that Israel’s former-Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, now a senior leader in the opposition Zionist Union party, was summoned for questioning by Scotland Yard on Thursday, over Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip in 2008-9, during which time she served as a cabinet member. Livni was travelling to London to participate in a conference organised by Haaretz. Questioning was not required in the end, after a meeting was arranged between Livni and Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood, categorising her visit as a diplomatic trip and therefore immune to legal proceedings.

The Guardian online reports that in the wake of last week’s reconciliation agreement between Israel and Turkey, the first Turkish ship carrying aid for the Gaza Strip has docked in the southern Israeli port of Ashdod. As part of last week’s deal, Israel agreed to permit Turkish aid entering Gaza, so long as it passes Israeli security checks, to ensure that illicit goods which could be used for military purposes do not end up in Hamas’ hands. This first Turkish shipment includes 10,000 tons worth of aid.

The i and online edition of the Independent both report that Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has blamed Facebook for being complicit in a terror attack last week in the West Bank, which saw a 13-year-old Israeli girl murdered in her bed by a Palestinian. The attacker announced his intentions on Facebook prior to the attack. Erdan said that Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg have not done enough to combat Palestinian hate speech on the social networking platform.

The Telegraph reports that the annual al Quds Day march took place yesterday in London, but was met by hundreds of pro-Israel supporters near the US Embassy. Al Quds Day is an annual event established in Iran ostensibly to express support for Palestinians, but has become an opportunity to invariably call for Israel’s destruction.

The Metro notes that today marks the 40th anniversary of the Entebbe raid, in which Israeli commandos carried out a daring and highly successful rescue operation in Uganda, to free Israeli and Jewish hostages who were being held at an airport by Palestinian terrorists following the hijacking of an Air France flight.

In the Israeli media, Haaretz and Israel Radio news both report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman have approved the construction of 800 housing units in the West Bank city of Ma’aleh Adumim and in Jewish neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem. At the same time, they have given approval to 600 housing units in the Arab neighbourhood of Beit Safafa in East Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, the top story in Yediot Ahronot is a report by military affairs correspondent Yossi Yehoshua, who says that indirect talks are taking place with Hamas over the return of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers who were killed in Operation Protective Edge in 2014 and an Israeli citizen who wandered into Gaza two years ago and is thought to be alive and held by Hamas. Apparently, Hamas wants a “Schalit deal number two” for their return. In 2011, kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit was returned to Israel by Hamas, in return for the release of around one thousand Palestinian prisoners, overwhelmingly convicted for terror-related offences.

Both Israel Hayom and Israel Radio prominently cover Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to a number of African countries, which gets underway today. It will be the first visit of an Israeli prime minister to Africa for decades. Netanyahu will arrive in Uganda this afternoon and will participate in a ceremony to mark forty years since the Entebbe raid, in which Netanyahu’s brother Yonatan was killed.