The Daily Mail and Reuters report that Jamal Khashoggi’s sons have issued an emotional appeal for their father’s body to be returned during an interview with CNN. The Daily Mail reports that Salah and Abdullah Khashoggi said they’ve been through weeks of agony following his disappearance and the confirmation on his death. ‘I really hope that whatever happened wasn’t painful for him, or it was quick. Or he had a peaceful death,’ Abdullah Khashoggi said during his interview alongside his brother Salah in Washington on Sunday. Salah said that charges that his father was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood organisation were not true. Asked how Khashoggi should be remembered, Salah replied: “As a moderate man who has common values with everyone … a man who loved his country, who believed so much in it and its potential. Jamal was never a dissident. He believed in the monarchy, that it is the thing that is keeping the country together. And he believed in the transformation that it is going through.” Reuters reports that Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an international businessman, said on Sunday that the probe will exonerate the country’s leader.

The Sun and the Daily Mail report that the Saudi Crown Prince could be overthrown. The Sun reports that Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, 76, is being lined up to take over from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, after Khashoggi’s killing caused international outrage and embarrassment for Saudi Arabia. Prince Salman, whom Khashoggi had fervently criticised in articles for the Washington Post, is about to be “drowned” and attempts to “resuscitate” him are futile, a senior European source has told Lebanese newspaper al-Binaa. Washington and London are on board with the plan to empower and install Prince Ahmed as the new de facto leader of the Gulf nation, the newspaper reported. Prince Ahmed, the Saudi king’s only surviving full brother, reportedly flew to Riyadh earlier this week to “challenge” Salman or “find someone who can”. He and other members of the Saudi royal family have come to the conclusion that Prince Salman, also known as MBS, has become “toxic” and needs to be ousted, a source has said. The Daily Mail reports that the Saudi Crown Prince “may survive Khashoggi crisis” because his detention and torture of opponents in the Ritz a year ago where they were ordered to cough up billions to be freed has left them too weak to challenge him.

 Politico reports that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged on Sunday to hold accountable those responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Khashoggi, while maintaining the important “strategic relationship” between the US and Saudi Arabia. Addressing the killing of Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Pompeo vowed on Fox News Sunday to “hold all of those responsible for the murder” accountable. “We will do that … at the same time while assuring the strategic relationship between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” The

Express reports that less than a month since the murder of Khashoggi, business ties between Wall Street and Riyadh have returned to normal. The financial sector has claimed the rewards of trade outweigh the downsides. Head of the investment company BlackRock Larry Fink said doing business with the Kingdom was “not something I’m ashamed of”.

 Reuters reports that Jordan said on Sunday Israel had asked for consultations on a special land deal agreed in their peace treaty that the Jordanian government wants to end. Under the peace treaty, two border areas were recognised to be under Jordanian sovereignty but gave Israel special provisions to use the land and allow Israelis free access. Jordan formally notified Israel two weeks ago it would not renew the 25-year deal over Baquora, where the Yarmouk River flows into the Jordan River, and in the Ghumar area in the southern Wadi Araba desert where Israeli farmers have large plantations.

The Daily Mail reports that Israeli forces raided the offices of the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Sunday, authorities said, after reports of an investigation related to a land sale. Israeli authorities confirmed the raid in Al-Ram, just on the other side of Israel’s “separation wall from Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank,” but provided few details. It came after Israel’s detention of the Palestinian governor, Adnan Gheith, on October 20. He was released two days later. The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Jerusalem affairs minister, Adnan al-Husseini, told AFP that Israeli forces confiscated documents and material during the raid. The same building houses his ministry and the governor’s office, both of which he said were raided in the first such Israeli action. Palestinian government spokesman Yusuf Mahmud said it was a “dangerous escalation of the occupation and a flagrant violation of all international laws and agreements”. Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security agency said in a statement a joint raid with police and the army was over “illegal activity by the PA in Jerusalem”.

The Daily Mail reports that the lights are going back on in the Gaza Strip, in a rare piece of positive news from the blockaded Palestinian enclave. In recent days, residents say they have received up to 16 hours of electricity a day, compared with as little as four previously. UN humanitarian officials report an average of between nine and 11 hours per day since October 25. It is the result of a landmark six-month deal, part of efforts to end unrest along the border between Israel and Hamas that has raised fears of a fourth war since 2008. The deal emerged amid ongoing indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel, mediated by the UN and Egypt, in hopes of reaching a long-term truce. The fuel agreement, whose first deliveries arrived on October 9, has provided the most power to Gaza residents in years. The tentative results are showing in the enclave’s beleaguered economy: companies are able to work longer, restaurant costs are falling and there is even an increase in ice cream.

The BBC, Express and FT report on Iran sanctions. The BBC reports that the US unleashed its “toughest ever” sanctions against Iran on Monday, a move that has already sparked mass protests in the oil-rich nation. The Trump administration reinstated all sanctions removed under the 2015 nuclear deal, targeting both Iran and states that trade with it. They will hit oil exports, shipping and banks – all core parts of the economy. Thousands of Iranians chanting “Death to America” rallied on Sunday (outside of the American embassy in Iran), rejecting calls for talks. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has vowed to sell oil and break the sanctions. The military was also quoted as saying it would hold air defence drills on Monday and Tuesday to prove the country’s capabilities. The Express reports that Rouhani said his country would continue to sell oil and would break Washington’s punitive embargoes on its vital energy and banking sectors. He said: “America wanted to cut to zero Iran’s oil sales but we will continue to sell our oil to break sanctions.” The measures come into force today after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal earlier this year and reimposed a first round of sanctions on the Islamic republic in August. Rouhani said on state TV on Monday his nation was in a “situation of economic war” and was “confronting a bullying power”. Simon Osbourne from the Express reports that Defence Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami praised Iranian engineers for their success in the face of “the enemy’s psychological warfare, propagandist blackmail, and economic sanctions”. Brig-Gen Hatami said Iran would “spare no effort” developing “peaceful defence technologies” to protect its sovereignty. But he warned: “Soon the required number of these planes will be produced and put at the service of the Air Force.” State media said the Kowsar boasted “advanced avionics”, a multipurpose radar and a fire control system linked to a digital military data network as well as an independent radio navigation system. The FT reports that Steven Mnuchin said: “With the full re-imposition of sanctions, this administration is closing a chapter on a nuclear deal that President Donald Trump deemed one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into”.

The Telegraph and The Times assess the possible effects of the Iran sanctions. The Telegraph reports that “the full impact of renewed US sanctions on Iran will be felt from today. Although the EU, including Britain, is sticking to the nuclear deal unilaterally repudiated by President Trump, without America’s backing it is pretty much a dead duck. Since European companies that continue trading with Iran risk being hit by secondary US sanctions, they are unlikely to keep doing so, despite promises of legal protection from Brussels.” Richard Spencer from The Times reports that “Washington has indicated that it will increase its pressure on Iran gradually rather than forcing an immediate crisis as President Trump’s renewed oil and financial sanctions take effect tomorrow. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, said the aim was to force Iran to “abandon its destructive activities”. However, he confirmed that eight countries had permission to keep buying Iranian oil for the time being, despite earlier threats of a tough line. Since Trump said in May that he would reimpose sanctions, two big developments may have affected his thinking. First, the price of oil has risen to about $75 a barrel, putting new pressures on the world economy. Second, although Saudi Arabia has said it will increase capacity by more than a million barrels a day to make up for Iranian production, that only emphasises Washington’s dependence on Riyadh for its Middle Eastern strategy just as it is trying to put pressure on Crown Prince Salman over the death of the Khashoggi. The European Union, which has opposed the reimposition of sanctions, was not given a waiver. Its imports of Iranian oil have already halved since the May announcement. It is also said it is looking into an alternative system to process payments to Iran if the country is cut out of the Swift international banking network. However, in another concession, the US treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said some financial institutions in Iran would be allowed to maintain access to Swift to allow imports of humanitarian goods.”

All the Israeli media lament the latest fatal road accident that killed six people yesterday. Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Israel Hayom all refer to route 90 as the “motorway of death” after 17 people have been killed on it in the last two weeks. The latest victims were all Palestinian workers from Jerusalem, killed when their minibus collided head-on into a truck in the Jordan Valley.

Haaretz reports on the march organised by teenagers from the Gaza border region who are protesting the security situation in the south. “They began their long journey on foot yesterday from a high school in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council with the aim of reaching the Knesset in Jerusalem in the next five days. They don’t have the support of any major organisations, and are not backed by any political party. They are doing this on their own, with a bit of help from their parents.  The school will not play any role in the protest march, as part of the Education Ministry cannot by law encourage the march, but the teachers have already informed the pupils that they have no intention of stopping them.” Yediot Ahronot quotes a teacher: “This is a protest that came from within them. It’s a decision that they made. We can’t stop them.” The paper also quotes Roi Rahaf from Kibbutz Mefalsim, a 12^th grader in the Shaar Hanegev regional school. “Ever since we were born we’ve lived between one war and the next. We want to grow up in the Gaza periphery quietly. The change is in the hands of the Israeli leadership, and that is why we’re marching to the Knesset. This is a march to create awareness about what is happening here in the Gaza periphery, to tell our story, the story of teenagers who have to cope with a difficult security situation. This is a long march, which is also going to include values and learning.”

Israel Hayom assesses US sanctions on Iran and their possible impact. “The undeclared goal of the current sanctions is to push the Iranian leadership into a corner and compel it to make different decisions. Some (the US and Israel) are hoping that the mounting economic pressure on Iran will lead to the fall of the government, but that appears to be an unlikely scenario … Washington and Jerusalem are hoping that the sanctions will affect broader circles that are supported by the regime in Tehran: Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria and the rebels in Yemen.” In the event that Iran agrees to make a new nuclear agreement, then “as far as Israel is concerned, such an agreement would have to be much broader than the agreement from which the Americans withdrew. It must not only include the nuclear issue, but also impose significant restrictions on developing long-range missiles and on Iranian involvement in terror and undermining stability in the region”.

Maariv reports that the Ministerial Committee for Legislation yesterday approved a bill introduced by MK Anat Berko (Likud) that states terrorists and security prisoners can no longer have their prison sentences reduced by a third. The bill calls for tougher sentences for terrorist offences compared to other criminal offences. The bill’s preamble states that when the court sentences criminal offenders, it takes into account three factors: rehabilitation, punishment, and deterrence. For ordinary offenders, rehabilitation is a major consideration, but for people who commit acts of terrorism, the punishment and deterrence factors should supersede that of rehabilitation and therefore the law passed in 2001 on reducing sentences should not apply to people who committed acts of terrorism. Kan radio news reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu has approved a bill sponsored by Yisrael Beiteinu to sentence terrorists to death. Netanyahu made his decision in a meeting of coalition party chairmen at the request of Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett. The bill has been held up in the Knesset for about a year. The Constitution, Law and Justice Committee will begin preliminary meetings soon to prepare the bill for its first vote. The bill will enable the courts to sentence terrorists to death even without a unanimous decision by the judges.

Yediot Ahronot includes a profile of the newly appointed chief of police Moshe ‘Chico’ Edri. He served 28 years in the police, during which he commanded the Traffic Police and the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv districts.  He will be returning to the force after almost a year of civilian life. During his time out of uniform, Edri served as the director-general of the Public Security Ministry.  The paper suggests his close working relationship with Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan is what gave him the advantage over Jerusalem District Commander Yoram HaLevy, long considered the favourite for the role.