The BBC, Independent and the Telegraph reported yesterday that Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi’s has been released after eight months in an Israeli prison. The BBC reports that 17-year-old Tamimi was filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home in Nabi Saleh last year. For Palestinians, she became a symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation. The Independent reports that Tamimi assaulted the soldiers after she learned that Israeli troops had wounded her 15-year-old cousin, shooting him in the head from close range with a rubber bullet during nearby stone-throwing clashes. The Telegraph reports Tamimi was met by crowds of supporters and journalists when she arrived back in her village. Tamimi said: “The resistance continues until the fall of the occupation, and of course the (female) prisoners in jail are all strong.” Tamimi later visited the tomb of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah and laid flowers there, before meeting Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.

The Daily Mail reports that the Israeli navy intercepted a ship bound for Gaza yesterday as it attempted to break the navy’s blockade. A statement from the Israeli navy said the passengers were notified they were “violating the legal naval blockade” and that humanitarian aid can be delivered to Gaza in other ways. It said the incident passed “without exceptional events” and that the ship is being taken to an Israeli port. The activists were from 14 countries, mainly from Europe but also Malaysia, the U.S. and Israel, on the ship carrying 100 boxes of medical aid for Gaza.

LBC, the Times and Sky News report that Jewish leaders have blamed Jeremy Corbyn for taking the Labour Party into an “ugly” place. The accusations follow Labour MP Ian Austin’s warning that he faced censure after clashing with the party Chairman Ian Lavery over the failure by the National Executive Committee (NEC) to adopt a widely backed definition of antisemitism. Austin accused Corbyn yesterday of “supporting and defending” extremists and antisemites and said that he was “deeply ashamed” of his party. In a letter to the Guardian, Austin said that “I am shocked and ashamed that a party that has had such a proud tradition of fighting racism has caused huge offence and distress to the Jewish community”. Sky News reports that in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, Mr Austin said Corbyn “has spent his entire time in politics on the extreme fringes of the Labour Party, supporting and defending all sorts of extremists and in some cases frankly, antisemites.”

The BBC and the Daily Mail report that four DUP politicians made incomplete donation reports about a trip to Israel. The BBC reports that MLA members Gary Middleton, William Humphrey, Michelle McIIveen and Jonathan Buckley reported donations to the Assembly, however did not report them to the Electoral Commission within the required 30 days. The visit – which cost £2,700 per delegate – was funded by Northern Ireland Friends of Israel, with extra costs being met by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Daily Mail reports the four-day visit in May was largely funded by Northern Ireland Friends of Israel and it was intended to develop economic links in areas like cyber-security.

Haaretz reports that Saudi Arabia and other key Arab countries have told the Trump Administration they won’t be able to support its plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace if it doesn’t include a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.

All the Israeli media report Zionist Union Chairman Avi Gabbay’s demand that Eitan Broshi MK resigns because of complaints of sexual harassment.  Gabbay informed Broshi of his suspension from party activity and said that there is no place for sex offenders on the street or in the Knesset.  Broshi’s lawyer said that the incident had never happened and that he intends to sue for defamation.

All the papers continue to cover the response to the Nation State Law.   Maariv reports the meeting between the Druze leadership and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and the warm embrace they received from the President. Yediot Ahronot focuses on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defending the legislation and accusing the left wing of hypocrisy. The Prime Minister met again with Druze leadership yesterday, but reports they left the meeting dissatisfied.  The paper quotes the chairperson of the Dalit el-Carmel Council, Rafik Halabi, who said he told the Prime Minister, “The nation-state law is a law that discriminates, that does not give expression to our citizenship, to the fact that we belong.  We want civil equality for all residents and we came here to express our pain and our distress.” After the meeting he added, “It was a very intense meeting. The Prime Minister tried to get us to focus on master plans and budgets and we tried to discuss changing the law. When he realised that it wasn’t going the way he wanted, he said that the law was not against and did not hurt the Druze and the other minorities, but added that he realised that there were others who felt differently and that he had to address them.”

Maariv reports that the Israeli Navy commandeered a small protest ship yesterday en-route to Gaza. The ship set sail from Europe with 22 activists on board from all over the world, among them Israeli citizens who lived in Israel in the past, such as left wing activist Yonatan Shapira, for whom this was his fourth flotilla.  The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) issued a statement that the ship had been monitored throughout and that it was seized in accordance with international law.  The IDF also said that the passengers had been told that all the humanitarian equipment could be transferred to the Gaza Strip through the Ashdod port. The incident ended without any irregular events and the IDF and the Israeli Navy are anticipating another ship in the next few days.

Haaretz reports that Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenager convicted of assaulting an Israeli soldier, was released on Sunday morning after serving her eight month sentence.   She said: “The resistance will continue until the end of the occupation.” Tamimi also met yesterday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his office in Ramallah. Kan radio news reports that two Italian citizens, who were caught two days ago drawing the image of Ahed Tamimi on the separation fence in the Bethlehem area, have had their visas revoked. They were asked to leave Israel within three days or face expulsion.

Maariv and Yediot Ahronot analyse what happened to the second missile that was fired by the David’s Sling missile-defence system last week on Israel’s northern border.  A new statement by the army was issued last night saying: “After identifying the threat and considering our tight schedule, the decision-making process was correct.”  Maariv says: “The essence of the malfunction was still unclear…Was it human error or perhaps a technical malfunction? And if it was a malfunction, of what kind was it?”  The paper raises  the concern that “the chances are that it fell in Syria and it is not unlikely that President Bashar Assad—and thus Russia and Iran—got their hands on the missile fragments and may have obtained valuable information about the advanced Israeli-American technology (David’s Sling is a joint venture of Rafael and the American company Raytheon). The possibility that this is what occurred was reinforced due to the fact that the Assad regime has not released any information about what happened, in contrast with previous incidents”.