The Guardian and Reuters reports that The Pentagon said on Tuesday 50 US service members were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced.

BBC News, The Guardian, The Independent and Sky News report that US President Donald Trump has presented his long-awaited Middle East peace plan, promising to keep Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, an independent Palestinian state and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty over West Bank settlements. The Times reports that President Trump has offered $50bn for Palestinians to give up Jerusalem, proclaiming it “a win-win opportunity for both sides”. The Financial Times reports that Trump said on Tuesday that his long-delayed Arab-Israeli peace plan would lay the foundations for “a realistic two-state solution”, but it appears to require the Palestinians to give up key negotiating positions they have fought for over for the past three decades. Reuters reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan the “slap of the century”, as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank on Tuesday evening.

The Associated Press reports that Israel appears to be barrelling toward a showdown with the international community over its half-century-old settlement enterprise in the West Bank.

Reuters reports that Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan as a means to destroy Palestinians’ rights, and accused Arab states of being complicit in a “deal of shame” that bodes ill for the region.

Reuters reports that Turkey dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan on Tuesday as an attempt to steal Palestinian lands and kill off prospects of establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

The Times, The Guardian, The Independent and The Financial Times report that Binyamin Netanyahu was formally indicted for corruption in an Israeli court after withdrawing his request for parliamentary immunity from prosecution, having failed to amass sufficient votes.

The Independent reports that Libya is descending once again into all-out war despite a tentative truce forged by international powers over the last fortnight, with reports of airstrikes targeting aviation facilities and a resumption of indirect fire along fronts across the country’s west.

The Times reports that Iran and Russia have showed off their increasingly cordial relations in defiance of mounting US sanctions against both countries.

The Telegraph reports that a British correspondent with The Economist was secretly detained in Iran for two months while on a reporting trip last year, in a worrying development in Tehran’s strategy of hostage-taking.

The Telegraph reports that Syrian regime air strikes ‘target civilian cars trying to flee fighting’ in rebel-held Idlib, according to civil defence rescuers.

On Newsnight, BICOM CEO James Sorene was interviewed by the BBC’s diplomatic editor, Mark Urban, alongside other guests discussing the Trump administration’s peace initiative.

LBC’s Nick Ferrari show featured a discussion between Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot and BICOM CEO James Sorene

In BBC News, Tom Bateman argues that the US peace initiative has been met with both ‘smiles and sorrow on the ground’, as Trump’s deal follows a logic that overwhelmingly favours Israel.

In Sky News, Mark Stone argues Trump’s plan means an end to the ‘two-state’ solution, as support for the Palestinian cause has dwindled with Gulf states becoming more focused on the threat from Iran.

In The Times, Anshel Pfeffer argues the timing of US peace plan is a blatant attempt to boost Binyamin Netanyahu’s political fortunes, shifting the focus of the election away from Mr Netanyahu’s alleged corruption and on to the prospect of an American green light to annex contested territory.

In The Independent, Ahmed Aboudouh argues Trump’s deal for Middle East peace helps only himself and Netanyahu attract attention away from their respective criminal charges, whilst the agreement will only prompt further violence and instability across the region.

In The Telegraph, Anthony Harwood argues a two-state solution is no good if one side ‘does not want to live where they’re put’, as  Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories ‘will remain just as they are’.

In The Independent, Robert Fisk argues the lack of national solidarity, the devotion to sectarian or personal ends and the ceaseless squabbling for place and power in Lebanon have inhibited the country from becoming a modern state.

The Telegraph editorial asserts the Palestinians ‘must give peace a chance’, despite the fact many will be ‘suspicious’ of the plans timing given Trump and Netanyahu’s respective impeachment and indictment charges.

The Times editorial says the Trump plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians is ‘unrealistic’ and has been rejected by the Palestinian Authority (PA), especially given there has been no contact between the White House and the PA, led by Mahmoud Abbas, since the US recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017.