The BBC, Independent and Daily Mail reports on Israel’s evacuation of the Syrian White Helmets from south-western Syria. The BBC reports that the plan had been to evacuate 800 White Helmets and their families to Jordan via the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, however only 422 made it. The Independent reports that the White Helmets were in need of evacuation from Daraa and Quneitra provinces following their surrounding by Syrian government forces as part of a major offensive to regain territory under rebel control. The Daily Mail details the statement made by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and International Development Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, in response to the Israeli operation. The pair commented that the “brave and selfless” volunteers required “immediate protection” and that “the White Helmets have saved over 115,000 lives during the Syrian conflict”. Despite this, the report also mentions that the Assad regime considers the White Helmets as a “terrorist organisation” as they operate in areas controlled by opponents to the Syrian Government.

The Guardian publishes a leader column on the passing of last week’s controversial Nation-State law. The editorial states: “Pushed by the most rightwing government in Israeli history, the bill is unashamedly majoritarian and illiberal.”  Moreover, the editorial comments that the new law “highlights the rise of Israel’s ultranationalists, which Mr Netanyahu sees as part of a global revival of populism” and that the law “amplifies rather than counteracts Israeli democracy’s worst tendencies”.

The Telegraph, BBC and the Guardian report on Trump’s hostile threat to Iran. The Telegraph reports that Trump warned Iranian president, to never threaten the US again, saying he would not “stand for your demented words”. The response was in reaction to Hassan Rouhani’s caution to Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying “war with Iran is the mother of all wars”. The BBC says the US left the JCPOA in return for the lifting of international sanctions, despite objections from the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany, who all signed the 2015 agreement. The Guardian covers comments by Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, who called Iran’s ruling elite a “mafia” who have amassed vast sums of wealth while allowing their people to suffer. The Secretary of State went further stating that the US was undertaking a diplomatic and financial campaign to cut off funds, focusing on re-imposing sanctions on its banking and energy sectors.

The Times reports on the mounting pressure of Corbyn aide Seumas Milne to withdraw his past comments about Israel. Seumas Milne, the leader’s director of strategy and communications, was a vocal critic of Israel during his career as a left-wing columnist. The report highlights that Mr Milne wrote in The Guardian in 2009 that “there’s a perfectly reasonable argument to be had about the nature of Israel’s racism and whether it should be compared to apartheid, for example”. These comments have surfaced amid the recent row over the Labour Party’s official definition of antisemitism.

The Times reports that Israel will re-open the Kerem Shalom goods crossing into Gaza if calm is maintained. The report highlights a statement made by Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s defence minister who said that that “if today and tomorrow the situation continues as it was yesterday, then on Tuesday we will allow Kerem Shalom to return to normal activity and the fishing zones will return to the same distances as before”. The crossing was closed on July 9, in response to kites and balloons carrying firebombs over the border fence to set Israeli farmland alight.

Business Insider reports on an LGBT protest in Tel Aviv following Netanyahu’s decision to deny surrogacy for gay couples. The strike attended by thousands of Israeli LGBT advocates and their supporters, protested the exclusion of gay men. Protesters marched in Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities on Sunday, and briefly blocked a major highway. The report comments that the protest has generated widespread support amongst employers who said they would allow employees to observe the strike without penalty. The protest has grown into a general call for equality, following other recent controversial legislation that appeared to target Israeli liberalism.

In the Israeli media, Haaretz and Kan Radio News report on an alleged Israeli strike in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a site on the outskirts of Hama had been manufacturing surface-to-surface missiles under Iranian supervision and that Iranian soldiers and Hezbollah personnel have been stationed there. The targeted site, the Scientific Studies and Research Center next to the city of Masyaf, has been used by the Assad regime as a weapons facility for developing chemical weapons, including sarin gas. It was attacked less than a year ago but has been rebuilt.

Maariv and Ynet report that three Druze MKs, two of them from the coalition, yesterday petitioned the High Court of Justice against the Knesset and the Israeli government demanding that the nation-state law be repealed. The petition, submitted by Attorney Samar Ali, was joined by the Forum of Druze Lawyers and the Forum of Druze and Circassian Local Authority Chairpersons. MK Saad from Labour said: “For the Druze community, which sacrifices its blood and its children for the sake of the State of Israel, the nation-state law is a spit in the face,”. He said: “We have joined forces in an effort that spans parties against the nation-state law because it is an extreme course of action by the government against Arabic speakers and it is the continuation of the discrimination against the Druze and the minorities, which is now enshrined in a basic law.” The petition states that the Nation-State law contradicts the principles of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty in that it denies self-determination to anyone in the State of Israel who is not Jewish.

Kan Radio News and Times of Israel report that Palestinian sources say a 16-year-old Palestinian was killed this morning by IDF fire during clashes in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem. Several teens were injured by shots fired and by tear gas. Other reports also said that two Palestinians were arrested in activity by security forces in the camp. The army says soldiers were attacked with IEDs, Molotov cocktails and rocks.

Yediot Ahronot reports that 44 hours after the cease-fire in Gaza was declared, an IDF aircraft attacked a Hamas terror cell that launched incendiary balloons from the northern Gaza Strip at Israel. Palestinians in Gaza reported a number of injured.

Haaretz reports that two Palestinian scientists were found dead in an apartment in Algeria, and the circumstances surrounding their deaths are unclear. Kan Radio News reports a statement from the Palestinian embassy in Algeria which said there was no credence to the reports spread across social media that the two were assassinated.

The Times of Israel published an interview with former senior State Department official Frank Lowenstein who said that Israel was implementing “Oslo reversed,” in which it has been gradually transferring power to Israeli settlers in the West Bank rather than to the Palestinian Authority.