The Telegraph, Times and i report that the evacuation of the West Bank outpost of Amona was completed yesterday by Israeli security forces, after they evicted a core of several dozen protestors who had barricaded themselves inside Amona’s makeshift synagogue. There was a brief, violent clash between the two sides, which followed a day in which around 40 families left their homes with relative calm. Israel’s High Court had ruled that Amona was built illegally on private Palestinian land and must be removed.

The Independent reports on comments made by Palestinian Legislative Council member Mustafa Barghouti, who alleged that the Amona evacuation was being used by Israel’s government as a tactic “to hide” the announcement earlier this week of approving the construction of 3,000 new homes in the West Bank.

The Independent and online edition of the Guardian cover a White House statement issued last night on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It said that “while we don’t believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace,” new settlement construction or expansion of existing settlements “may not be helpful” in achieving the 50-year “American desire for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians”.

The Guardian, Daily Express and Daily Mirror cover comments made by Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesperson, revealing further details of her planned meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London next week. Although the focus of the discussion is expected to be on the strengthening of general bilateral ties and trade, May will also likely reiterate the government’s position that West Bank settlements “undermine trust” between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Telegraph reports that the US could impose new sanctions on Iran as early as today, following Tehran’s admission that it conducted a medium-range ballistic missile test earlier this week, which appeared to violate a UN Security Council resolution. The i covers a report in Die Welt, which claims that Iran conducted an additional test of a cruise missile with nuclear capability, which can reach Israel.

The Times, Guardian, Daily Mirror and online edition of the Financial Times highlight comments made by new US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who said Iran is “on notice” over the missile tests, while the Sun and Metro cover US President Donald Trump’s assertion that “nothing is off the table” in responding to the tests. However, the Daily Mail says that senior Iranian official, Ali Akbar Velayati called Trump’s rhetoric “useless”.

In the Israeli media, the top story in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom is yesterday’s confrontation at Amona. Yediot Ahronot’s headline describes the events as an “eviction battle”. One report claims that as many as 60 police officers and around 20 protestors were injured. Commenting on the events of yesterday in Yediot Ahronot, Shlomo Pyoterkovsky says: “The violence employed by the people who barricaded themselves in the synagogue—‎who were only a small minority of several dozen teens out of nearly one thousand—‎severely harmed the battle for the Land of Israel.”

Maariv headlines the statement last night from the White House, which said that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not helpful, but are not an impediment to peace. The Maariv front page headline is “‎Trump to Israel: Stop Saying That You Are Going to Build in the Settlements”.

The story is also a major focus of Israel Radio’s reporting this morning. Also in Israel Radio is the story that the High Court will rule by Monday morning on a petition to postpone (by three months) the removal of nine houses that were built illegally in Ofra, which is situated next to Amona.

In a separate item, Israel Radio says that two policemen and a security guard were lightly injured in a vehicle attack near the settlement of Adam north of Jerusalem yesterday. The 39-year-old attacker was also injured in the incident.