BBC News, Sky News, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, The Daily Mail and The Financial Times all report on our main story – that Israel has carried out air strikes on the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port of Hodeidah in Yemen, a day after a drone launched by the group hit Tel Aviv. The Times reports on how the Houthis have warned of retaliation.

BBC News, The Guardian, Sky News, Reuters, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times and The Economist all report on Friday’s advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice that said Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is against international law. It marks the first time the ICJ has delivered a position on the legality of the 57-year occupation. Peter Beaumont in The Guardian argues the ruling is “hard to ignore”. Natasha Hausdorff writes for The Telegraph: “The verdict of the ICJ is a staggering misuse of the tools of justices, and tears up the framework of the Oslo Accords”.

Sky News reports on northern escalation, saying: “the landscape of south Lebanon is changing almost daily as villages are reduced to rubble in an increasingly dangerous volley of attacks between the Israeli military and Hezbollah”.

Sky News also reports that a Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli strike on south Lebanon has carried the Olympic torch in Paris to honour killed and injured journalists. Christina Assi, of Agence France-Presse (AFP), was one of six journalists struck by Israeli shelling on 13 October while reporting on an exchange of fire along the border between Israeli troops and Hezbollah.

The Daily Mail reports that Israel has deployed secret agents to guard athletes at the Paris Olympics amid a concerning surge in threats of antisemitic violence across Europe. Armed Shin Bet operatives are preparing to provide security for around 88 Israeli athletes and their staff but not every person will have their own bodyguard, according to Israel’s minister of culture.

The Economist reports on Israel’s experience of urban warfare in Lebanon and in Gaza: “Take Israel’s northern front, where the IDF have been exchanging rockets and drones with Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group. To stop Hezbollah’s increasingly capable drones, the IDF has resorted to heavy jamming. The impact on the electromagnetic spectrum is so strong that Israeli soldiers have had to eschew digital maps for printed ones.”

The Guardian reports on a village in southern Lebanon, Odaisseh, and the impact so far of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

The Guardian also reports on the Rafah border areas, including changes made by the IDF during the war, the Philadelphi corridor and the extent to which the area has been damaged over recent months.

The Guardian also reports that Len Blavatnik, the second-richest man in Britain, is facing a series of protests in the UK after his Israeli television channel was accused of cancelling programmes to please Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli citizens opposed to the Netanyahu government held protests on Sunday at the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik wing and the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of government.

The Guardian further reports that Israel’s education minister and the country’s national union of students are backing a draft law to limit academic speech in the country, which the heads of leading universities have attacked as “McCarthyite” and fundamentally undemocratic. The legislation, currently being debated in the Knesset, would give a government-appointed committee the power to order the firing of academic staff that it decides have expressed “support for terror”. If the universities refuse, their funding would be cut.

BBC News reports that Adidas has dropped the supermodel Bella Hadid, who is half Palestinian, from an advertising campaign for retro shoes referencing the 1972 Munich Olympics. Israel had criticised the choice of Ms Hadid. It accused her of hostility to Israel and noted that 11 Israeli athletes had been killed by Palestinian attackers at the Munich Games. Adidas subsequently apologised and said it would “revise” its campaign.

The Times reports on the behaviour of close associates of Shockat Adam, newly elected MP for Leicester South, who allegedly followed and filmed Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth, taunting him repeatedly during the campaign.

Reuters reports that Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to stick largely to Joe Biden’s foreign policy playbook on key issues such as Ukraine, China and Iran but could strike a tougher tone with Israel over the Gaza war if she replaces the president at the top of the Democratic ticket and wins the US November election.

Reuters reports that the IDF issued call-up notices to 1,000 members of the ultra-Orthodox community on Sunday “in a move meant to bolster the army’s ranks but which could further inflame tensions between religious and secular Israelis”.

Haaretz, Israel Hayom, and Yediot Ahronot all report on President Biden’s decision to withdraw as the Democratic Party’s candidate in November 2024’s election, and endorsement of Vice President Harris as his replacement. Writing for Haaretz, Ben Samuels reports that given perceptions of her being “the Biden administration’s so-called ‘bad cop’ on Israel in recent months”, Vice President Harris’s “public rhetoric on Israel and the Gaza war will undoubtedly be heavily scrutinised — both by disillusioned Democratic voters in key swing states as well as Republicans looking to continue wielding Israel as a political weapon”. In another piece for Haaretz, Amir Tibon reflects on President Biden’s term in office, writing that while his support for Israel was “critical”, “to many, his empathy was just as important”.

In Yediot Ahronot, Itamar Eichner reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu “will highlight the special relationship between Israel and the United States and thank President Biden for his steadfast support, including the military aid provided since the war began” on his upcoming visit to Congress this week. His engagements will include a meeting with President Biden on Tuesday, addressing a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, and other meetings with Harris and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

In an op-ed for Israel Hayom, Ariel Kahana predicts that President Biden’s withdrawal will impact Prime Minister Netanyahu’s message in Congress, suggesting he will “tread carefully… under the watchful eyes of Harris, the designated successor”.

Haaretz also reports on security developments in  Gaza and on the northern border. Yaniv Kubovich describes how the IDF has issued a statement ordering the temporary evacuation of eastern Khan Younis “to the humanitarian zone in al-Mawasi due to terror activity and rocket launch into Israel from the city”, and that it intends to “forcefully operate” in the city to counter these terror threats. He also writes that the IDF has confirmed that it intercepted “several aerial targets” which crossed into Israeli airspace from Lebanon, and that no casualties were reported.

Writing for Yediot Ahronot, Yoav Zitun and Einav Halabi report on the IDF’s Arabic language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, saying that there are increasing indications that Mohammed Deif was killed in an airstrike in Khan Yunis last week. However, he was keen to stress that “as of now, there is no 100 percent official confirmation”. Zitun and Halabi also report that the Deif strike “was carried out in several stages”, culminating with ”a bunker-busting missile that struck underground”.

In Ynet, Itamar Eichner reports that an Israeli negotiating delegation has been authorised to travel to Doha on Thursday for further talks aimed at securing the release of hostages captured on 7^th October. According to Eichner, “sources said…a decision was made to advance in negotiations on the 29 Hamas comments to the proposed outline”, and that “security officials have said that the proposed deal was an acceptable one. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant added that without a deal the fate of the remaining Israeli hostages would be sealed”.

Kan Radio News reports on two demonstrations which respectively called for the Israeli government to strike a deal with Hamas to free the hostages, and for the Prime Minister not to “capitulate” to Hamas’s demands saying that only military pressure would secure the release of all hostages. These demonstrations took place at Ben Gurion Airport, and outside the Prime Minister’s residence.

Writing for Israel Hayom, Lilach Shoval describes the thwarting of a Hamas terror plot involving students from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was being directed from by group operatives in Turkey. A joint IDF, police, and Shin Bet operation “led to the arrest of several suspects and the seizure of weapons and funds earmarked for the attack”, which was also reported to have been in its “advanced stages”.