Most UK broadsheets this morning cover the details of an Israel Channel Two documentary which aired last night. The Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Independent and Independent i report that the programme, which included interviews with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak revealed that the pair had ordered the Israeli military to prepare for an imminent strike against Iranian nuclear facilities in 2010. According to the documentary, the country’s chief of staff at the time, Gabi Ashkenazi, and then head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, opposed the move.    Meanwhile, the Independent online reports that the Israeli army shot and killed a Palestinian man who approached the Gaza border fence yesterday after he ignored repeated warnings to retreat. Several Israeli patrols along the Gaza border fence have been targeted recently by armed Palestinians. On Israel’s northern border with Syria, the Times notes that stray bullets from the internal fighting in Syria struck an Israeli military vehicle, causing no injuries. In Syria itself, the Telegraph online reports that scores of fighters from both sides of the ongoing internal conflict died yesterday during a day of air attacks and explosions, including a suicide bomb which killed at least fifty regime troops at an army base. The online edition of the Independent covers the conference of Syrian opposition leaders in Qatar. The report claims that the Syrian National Council is set to reject a Western-backed initiative to form a new, broader-based representative body.

Elsewhere in the region, most broadsheets report on Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to the Gulf States. The Daily Mirror and online editions of the Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times and Independent note Cameron’s response to questions over the human rights records of some of the countries that he is visiting, saying that it was “legitimate and right” to sell them military equipment as “countries have a right to defend themselves.”  Meanwhile, the Daily Express, Daily Mail and the Independent online focus on Cameron’s warning over the danger of a nuclear Iran, which he described as a “threat to the world” and a possible trigger to a regional nuclear arms race.

The Israeli media is dominated by today’s US presidential elections, which fills half of the news section of Maariv and twelve pages of this morning’s Yediot Ahronot. Writing in Yediot Ahronot, Itamar Eichner claims that Netanyahu is concerned that if President Barack Obama is re-elected, elements in his administration will seek to undermine Netanyahu’s election campaign as payback for perceived interference in the presidential campaign.  In other news Maariv reports that Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman are planning a series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority , should the PA proceed with a bid to upgrade the status of the Palestinian delegation at the United Nations later this month. The report claims, however, that Israel’s security establishment opposes such sanctions. Meanwhile, Makor Rishon reports on the Jewish Home Party’s leadership election which takes place today and is being contested by Zevulun Orlev and Naftali Bennett. The same newspaper, along with Israel Radio News, also notes that a stray bullet struck an Israeli military vehicle yesterday from the fighting in Syria, causing no injuries. Israel Radio News also reports that Israeli President Shimon Peres will travel today for an official visit to Russia.