The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Reuters and the Express report that Prime Minister Netanyahu accused Iran of hiding a “secret atomic warehouse” in Tehran. The Telegraph reports that in a speech at the UN, Netanyahu said his country’s spies had located “a secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran’s secret nuclear weapons programme”. Netanyahu said Iran had recently moved 15kg of radioactive material from the warehouse and “spread it around Tehran in an effort to hide the evidence”. The Daily Mail reports that Netanyahu, holding up a poster-board map of an area near Tehran as he spoke at the UN General Assembly, told world leaders that Iranian officials have been keeping up to 300 tons of nuclear equipment and material in a walled, unremarkable-looking property near a rug-cleaning operation. Netanyahu said: “You have to ask yourself a question: Why did Iran keep a secret atomic archive and a secret atomic warehouse? … What Iran hides, Israel will find.” Reuters reports that Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly that Israel had evidence that Iran was helping Hezbollah give its missiles precision-guided accuracy. “In Lebanon, Iran is directing Hezbollah to build secret sites to convert inaccurate projectiles into precision-guided missiles, missiles that can target deep inside Israel within an accuracy of 10 metres,” he said. The Express reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Java Zarif responded to Netanyahu’s speech with in a blistering tweet: “No arts and craft show will ever obfuscate that Israel is the only regime in our region with a secret and undeclared nuclear weapons programme – including an actual atomic arsenal.” Zarif said that it was “time for Israel to fess up and open its illegal nuclear weapons programme to international inspectors”.

Reuters reports that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. At the meeting with Netanyahu in New York, Sisi “stressed the importance of resuming the negotiations between the two sides, the Palestinians and the Israelis, to reach a just and a comprehensive solution based on a two-state solution and in accordance with the international treaties,” according to a presidential statement. Netanyahu and Sisi convened for their previously announced talks several hours after US President Donald Trump said he wanted a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in what had appeared to be the clearest expression yet of his administration’s support for such an outcome.

The Independent reports that Trump has promised a Middle East peace plan within four months, despite Palestinian backlash. Trump said it was his “dream” to see a peaceful end to the 70-year conflict, and pledged to present a deal within two to four months. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Trump appeared unperturbed and claimed “a lot of progress had been made”. The President later confirmed his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is tasked with brokering a permanent settlement, was going to be “very fair with the Palestinians”.

The Daily Mail and Reuters report that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas criticised Trump for moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. The Daily Mail reports that Abbas used his address to the UN General Assembly to lambast the US for closing the Palestine Liberation Organisation office in Washington, recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, moving its embassy there and slashing Palestinian aid money. Abbas also said Trump could not be regarded as a neutral broker. “We will also not accept sole American mediation in the peace process,” he said, accusing the former real estate tycoon of being “biased” towards Israel since taking office in January 2017. Reuters reports that Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticised Abbas’ speech, saying: “Instead of responding to the outstretched hand of Israel and the United States, the only thing that interests (him) is to settle scores and drive the region toward confrontation”.

The Daily Mail reports that Home Secretary Sajid Javid is due to impose a full ban on the terrorist group Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s military wing has been proscribed here since 2008 but a legal loophole means its political wing is not. This has allowed anti-Israel protesters to openly and legally fly the Lebanese group’s flag on Britain’s streets. However Javid has seized on Home Office assessments which say Hezbollah ‘is committed to armed resistance to the state of Israel and aims to seize all Palestinian territories and Jerusalem from Israel’.

The Daily Mail reports that foreign ministers of the US and several Arab and European countries met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss steps to advance the political process in Syria, now in its eighth year of war. The seven countries asked the UN Syria envoy to report back to the UN Security Council on his progress no later than 31 October, setting a deadline for action, according to a joint statement. Egypt, Germany, Jordan and Britain joined the US, France and Saudi Arabia in warning that “those who seek a military solution will only succeed in increasing the risk of a dangerous escalation.” A copy of the Foreign Ministers’ joint statement on Syria can be read here.

The Israeli media focuses on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at the UN General Assembly which focused on the Iranian nuclear programme with Maariv referring to it as a “speech filled with revelations” and Yossi Verter in Haaretz calling it “one of his most convincing and effective performances”. Netanyahu revealed that Iran has a secret nuclear warehouse in Tehran, not far from the nuclear archives that Israel revealed about six months ago. He called on inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to examine the site before the Iranians could empty it out. Netanyahu also revealed Hezbollah missile sites – including in Beirut – and said, addressing Iran’s leaders: “Israel will never let a regime that calls for our destruction to develop nuclear weapons. Not now, not in ten years, not ever.”

Kan Radio News reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to Netanyahu’s speech and said that no artistic presentation would blur the fact that Israel was the only regime in the region that had a secret, undeclared nuclear weapons plan as well as existing stockpiles of atomic weapons. He tweeted that the time had come for Israel’s illegal nuclear weapons programme to be subject to international inspection.

Praising the speech, Shlomo Pyuterkovsky in Yediot Ahronot calls Netanyahu “one of the greatest statesmen that Israel has ever known,” adding that he “succeeded, once again, in delivering a clear and emphatic message to the world about the Iranian danger”.

Also in Yediot Ahronot, Alon Pinkas warns of Netanyahu’s closeness with Trump: “When Netanyahu links Israel’s fate to Trump, and Trump is an object of mockery in China, Germany, Russia, Britain, France, Japan and other places, this is not beneficial for Israel.” He adds that “the absence of the US from the Middle East is a gradual process of nearly a decade, which stems from a sense of being fed up with the Middle East, fatigue with wars and a focus on China and the East. The result of this is an American change of priorities that does not benefit Israel.”

Kan Radio News reports on a memorandum of understanding reached between the Obama administration and the Palestinian Authority (PA) which contains a PA commitment not to violate agreements signed with Israel and not to approach international organisations in exchange for a commitment from Washington to continue its financial aid and not relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem. In yesterday’s speech, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that if the US continued to violate the understandings, the PA would not be committed to them either.

Yediot Ahronoth reports that Israeli security officials believe that the first S-300 air defence battery is due to arrive in Syria as early as next week with a high probability that it will be operated by the Russians. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said yesterday: “We appreciate our relationship with Russia. The security coordination between the Russian army and the IDF is highly important. We regret the loss of the 15 Russian soldiers and officers. We have no interest in conducting a dialogue with Russia by means of the media. There are many talks and a lot of coordination, all through covert channels. As far as we are concerned, the responsibility for downing the Russian plane rests solely with the Syrian army. We will discuss everything else with them in closed forums.”

The Times of Israel reports that Israel has completed the necessary preparations to reopen its main crossing with Syria to UN troops after a four-year closure, leaving the checkpoint’s fate in the hands of Bashar Assad. Defence Minister Lieberman announced the move at a press conference on the border. Lieberman said: “Everything is ready and set. It’s all on the other side [to decide] now.”

The Jerusalem Post reports that British exports to Israel have soared by 75 per cent in the first half of 2018, according to figures released last week by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Between January and June 2018, UK exports to Israel totalled $3.45bn, a huge increase from $1.97b in the first half of 2017. In June of this year alone, exports to Israel almost doubled to $606m from $335m. BICOM CEO James Sorene told The Jerusalem Post that “there has certainly been a move over the past few years, and since the referendum, for the UK Government to support and encourage more British companies to be exporting and they identified Israel as a priority market a few years ago”.

Maariv reports that Netanyahu wants Eyal Zamir as the next Police Commissioner although Defence Minister Lieberman is opposed

Haaretz reports that Hamas is getting ready for a military clash against the backdrop of a worsening crisis in Gaza.