The Telegraph, Times and Independent all cover Tuesday’s incident in the Israeli Golan Heights, in which Israeli Druze residents ambushed an Israeli military ambulance evacuating wounded Syrians for hospital treatment, who had arrived at the country’s border injured in the country’s civil war. The mob killed one of the patients in the ambulance, who they said was an Islamist fighter, part of a group threatening the Druze population across the Syrian border. The Independent emphasises that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for calm.

The Guardian online says that the Bishop of Clifton has condemned a recent arson attack at the Church of the Multiplication in northern Israel, the site at which Christian tradition holds Jesus performed the miracle of fishes and loaves. Jewish extremists are thought to have carried out the attack and Israeli leaders have pledged to apprehend the perpetrators. The article also notes that the attack was denounced by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

The Guardian online includes a feature on the growing popularity of “wadi climbing,” a rock-climbing project spearheaded by two Americans, among West Bank Palestinians. The Guardian’s print edition includes a lengthy feature on a book by Dr Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian physician who documents his intensive work in Gaza’s hospitals during Operation Protective Edge. Dr Gilbert is a long-time pro-Palestinian activist with links to far-left political parties in Norway.

The Times says that Egypt has finished digging a 20-metre deep trench parallel to its border with the Gaza Strip, in order to prevent Hamas and other groups from smuggling illicit items, weapons and fighters into the Sinai Peninsula.

The Telegraph online covers a televised speech by Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, in which he ruled out international inspections of military sites and insisted that Iran continue nuclear research and development after finalising a nuclear agreement. Meanwhile, the Independent and Independent i both report that Iran’s parliament yesterday similarly voted in favour of a bill banning the United Nations from accessing military sites. In the Times, Roger Boyes argues that the P5+1powers (US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) must broker a better deal with Tehran than the one currently on offer, tightening inspections and offering only phased sanctions relief dependent on Iranian compliance.

The online editions of the Guardian, Times, Telegraph and Independent all report that Kurdish forces have driven ISIS from a key base north of the stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria.

In the Israeli media, Yediot Ahronot says that Israel is embarking on a diplomatic initiative to form a “moral majority coalition of enlightened countries” who will oppose or at least refuse to adopt the recent report on Operation Protective Edge at the United Nations Human Rights Council. The report was published this week and was condemned by Israeli leaders for inherent bias.

Meanwhile, Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom all report that just a day after the UNHRC-sponsored report was published, a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel yesterday evening. The rocket caused no injuries or damage, but was the fifth such attack in recent weeks. Israel Hayom says that residents of southern communities have called for action and say that they refuse to face another summer of sirens and rockets. Israel Radio news reports that Israel’s air force struck the site from which the rocket was launched in response.

The top story in both Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom is the death of a woman at a wedding in Yavne on Monday night, after a chandelier fell from the ceiling. Police are investigating the incident over possible negligence, while both newspapers cover the human aspect of the story, highlighting the distress of the families.