The Independent reports the breaking news that Iraq has cancelled all foreign flights to the Kurdish capital of Irbil in northern Iraq.

BBC News Online, the Guardian and the Independent report that Interpol approved the membership application from the “State of Palestine”. Israel attempted to delay the vote, arguing that Palestine was not a state and therefore ineligible for membership.

The Daily Mail and the Times report on the controversial ceremony held in Israel yesterday to celebrate 50 years of Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights. The commemoration was a state occasion. More than 5,000 guests attended the event next to a military base in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. However, Israeli Supreme Court president Miriam Naor turned down an official invitation to send a representative to the event because the invite contained the words “to celebrate the jubilee of the liberation of Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights”.

The Daily Mail reports on the reduction of Elor Azaria’s sentence for the unlawful killing of a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian terrorist. The reduction was granted by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisnekot, who cited “mercy considerations”.

The Telegraph reports that Jeremy Corbyn made no reference to the antisemitism row which “engulfed” the Labour party conference this week during his leadership speech. The paper notes that he did however make a “pointed” reference to the “oppression” of Palestine. On Monday Labour activists at a fringe meeting called for the Jewish Labour Movement and Labour Friends of Israel to be “kicked out” of the party, forcing Corbyn to deny that Labour was the “nasty party”.

BBC News Online and the Times report on the decision by Iraqi Kurds to back independence in a referendum on Monday. The electoral commission said that 92% of the 3.3m Kurds and non-Kurds who cast their ballots supported independence from Iraq.

The controversial ceremony marking “the liberation” of territories in 1967 leads most of the coverage in the Israeli media. Yediot Ahronot called the event was underwhelming, saying: “had they attended the event they would have realized that despite the huge sums of money that were invested, despite all the sophisticated equipment. The best that Miri Regev was able to deliver was rubbish. A troupe of dancers writhing about without any context whatsoever, two singers, childish texts, pretty pictures and colourful fireworks don’t make an event.” However, the paper addss that “should the 50th anniversary of Israeli settlement in the territories be honoured with a state ceremony? I think it should. The settlement enterprise is a project that was jointly undertaken by the left wing bloc and the right wing bloc; essentially, it was undertaken by the entire political establishment, with the exception of the Arab parties. And let’s not forget the decisive contribution that was made by the Supreme Court to the settlement enterprise.”

Maariv frames the debate as Justice Minister Shaked versus the Supreme Court President. Commenting on the targeting of the Supreme Court, the paper assesses that “the goal is clear: to dismantle, crush and destroy to its foundations of liberal Israeli democracy as we’ve known it, as we established it, as our forefathers dreamt it.”

Haaretz reports that the UN Human Rights Commissioner has sent letters to 150 international companies, warning them about doing business with companies operating from Israeli settlements.

Yediot Ahronot highlights a meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held yesterday with the settler leadership, where he told them due to sensitivities with the Trump administration that “Israel needs to act with restraint in all that pertains to construction in the territories”.

Kan Radio News reports Netanyahu met American envoy Jason Greenblatt and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in Jerusalem last night. He told them that the Palestinian leadership was undermining the chances to make peace and that its diplomatic warfare would not go unanswered.

Yediot Ahronot and Israel Hayom report on IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot’s decision to cut Elor Azaria’s prison sentence by four months. In his decision Eisenkot wrote: “your conduct was unacceptable and was contrary to the army’s command and values of the IDF.”  However, he added that “I found it appropriate to weigh considerations of kindness and mercy, taking into account his past as a combat soldier in the operational arena”. Maariv notes the next stage of the campaign to have him released is to appeal for a Presidential pardon.

Haaretz report that Israel has complained to Russia because it hosted senior Hamas officials that Israel considers terrorists.

Channel 10 News reveals that welfare minister Haim Katz of the Likud party will be charged with bribery for allegedly helping advance workers in the aviation authority in return for renovations on his home. The minister denies all the charges.