The Telegraph reports that Britain’s Ambassador to Israel was filmed by militants from Palestinian Islamic Jihad during a secret trip he made to the Gaza border to observe Israel’s handling of Palestinian protests. Wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, David Quarrey travelled with a senior Israeli general to the Gaza border last week, where 48 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops since March. The British diplomat’s trip was not made public but members of Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian terrorist group, posted a video of Quarrey and the Israeli commander filmed from inside Gaza.  The footage did not identify Quarrey and was focused on General Yoav Mordechai, the Israeli military Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).  It showed Quarrey and a group of Israeli officers standing on a sand berm on the Israeli side of the fence, watching the protests unfolding inside Gaza. Palestinian factions sometimes film Israeli commanders to give the impression that they could be targeted by snipers. Both Quarrey and Gen. Mordechai left the area without incident. The footage was published by Quds Media, a Palestinian media outlet linked to Islamic Jihad.

The Guardian has published a report on the T-4 airbase in Syria. According to the report, the base is the focus of an emerging, potentially catastrophic war, fought not between the Syrian regime and its domestic foes, but two of the region’s most formidable enemies: Israel and Iran. T-4 is where Iran has established a military foothold in its Arab ally. According to Israeli officials, Iranian drones used over Syria take off from the base. Satellite images captured in April and acquired by the Guardian show what is believed to be the remains of a strike by Israel on Iranian forces stationed at T-4, which is evidence of a direct confrontation between the two countries.

BBC News Online  and the Guardian report that remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas about the Holocaust have been condemned as antisemitic by Israeli politicians and rights activists. Abbas told a meeting in the West Bank the Nazi mass murder of European Jews was the result of their financial activities, not antisemitism. He described their “social function” as “usury and banking and such”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman said the remarks were “antisemitic and pathetic”.

The Independent, the Times and the Guardian report on the European responses to Netanyahu’s press conference about Iran’s compliance with the nuclear agreement. European leaders have pushed back against Israel’s claims that it has new evidence showing that Iran is breaching the nuclear deal with the west which was signed in 2015. The overall initial view in European capitals was that the documents did reveal new material about the scale of Iran’s programme prior to 2015 but that there was nothing showing a subsequent breach of the deal. The French foreign ministry said that the details needed to be “studied and evaluated” but that the Israeli claims reinforced the need for continuation of the deal – which entails Iran accepting nuclear inspections in return for a loosening of economic sanctions. The UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, also said the presentation of the claims, by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu showed the importance of keeping the deal. “The Iran nuclear deal is not based on trust about Iran’s intentions, rather it is based on tough verification,” he said. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday, the UK’s minister for the Middle East, Alistair Burt, insisted the deal “contributed to peace in the region”. He added: “Iran has reduced its uranium stockpile by 95%, its centrifuges by two-thirds and as recently as February has been judged by the International Atomic Energy Authority to be in compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).”

The Telegraph reports that Netanyahu is expected to brief UK Prime Minister Theresa May soon on Israeli intelligence about Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, as the UK said it had “never been naive about Iran” but still supported the 2015 nuclear agreement. A spokesman said Netanyahu plans to call May to discuss what Israel says is a trove of stolen Iranian documents which “conclusively prove” that Iran lied about its nuclear ambitions before and after the landmark nuclear deal.

On BBC Radio Four’s World Tonight Member of the Knesset Sharren Haskel discussed Netanyahu’s presentation and tensions with Iran in Syria.

The Daily Mail reports that Iran has branded Netanyahu an ‘infamous liar’ after he claimed Tehran still has a top secret nuclear weapons program. Netanyahu says documents collected by Israeli intelligence show Iran covered up its nuclear ambitions before signing a deal with world powers in 2015. But the Islamic republic’s foreign ministry spokesman, Bahram Ghasemi, has described the Israeli leader as a ‘broke and infamous liar who has had nothing to offer except lies and deceits’.

The Daily Mail published an column by Middle East columnist and journalist John R Bradley which argues that tensions between arch-enemies Israel and Iran once again threaten to plunge the two countries into direct military conflict – one that could all too easily lead to a new and terrifyingly unpredictable regional war.

The Guardian published a comment piece by World Affairs editor Julian Borger that argues that Netanyahu’s presentation has helped push Trump towards the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

The Financial Times reports that if Trump carries out his threat to “tear up” the accord and reimpose sanctions, the Iranian sector worst affected would be the Islamic republic’s most important: the energy industry.

The Telegraph reports on the Mossad operation to collect the documents mentioned in Netanyahu’s presentation on 30 April. According to Israeli officials, the storage facility in the Shorabad neighbourhood had been chosen precisely because of its unassuming appearance. Iran’s government reportedly feared that the files might be found by international inspectors if they were kept in major bases and so they hid them in the Tehran warehouse. Israeli officials said it was this act of centralisation that made it possible for Mossad spies to pull off the seemingly-impossible: snatching half a tonne of Iranian documents in a single night and secreting them out of the country. “It was too heavy to take in its entirety,” said one Israeli official. Officials said that Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, had become aware of the warehouse in February 2016, a few weeks after the Iran deal came into force. The raid was carried out in February this year. It is still not clear how the Mossad spies were able to move such a large and physically heavy haul out of the country and get it back to Israel. One possibility is that they employed the aid of smugglers, who have developed sophisticated networks for getting goods in and out of Iran since international sanctions choked off large parts of the economy. Israel’s Channel 10 said 100 Mossad operatives were involved in the operation. Sceptics of Netanyahu speculated that there may have been no raid at all and suggested that Israel may have broken into the computer systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which had some of the files.

The Financial Times published an op-ed by David Gardner that argues that Trump and Netanyahu have miss the real threats posed by Iran: the upcoming elections in Iraq and Lebanon that could score victories for Iran’s allies.

The Telegraph reports that Netanyahu said Tuesday that he was not seeking a military confrontation with Iran even as he continued his public campaign to convince Donald Trump to strengthen the 2015 nuclear deal or pull the US out of it. A day after he dramatically unveiled Israeli intelligence which he said proved that Iran had lied to the world about its nuclear research, the Israeli leader talked down European fears that scrapping the deal could lead to war. “Nobody is seeking that the kind of development. Iran is the one that changing the rules in the region. Iran is the one practicing aggression against every country in the Middle East,” Netanyahu said.

The Telegraph reports on the upcoming Giro d’Italia cycle race which begins in Jerusalem. The race which begins in the “city on Friday with a 9.7km time trial, the first of three stages to be held in Israel before the race moves to Italy, may well pass off smoothly”.

The Guardian published an column by Peter Beaumont which argues that a dual standard of justice applies in the Israeli court system, using the recent trials of Ahed Tamimi and Ben Deri as examples.

The Financial Times reports that three companies were granted licences to build Lebanon’s first wind farms, potentially opening the way to large-scale private investment in an industry long dominated by a dysfunctional state utility, Electricité du Liban (EDL), and a vast informal network of generator companies that fill daily gaps in power supply.

The Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail report that an archaeological breakthrough at an ancient lost city could go towards proving some of the Bible’s claims about King David. A team has been digging at Tel Eton, in the Hebron hills of Israel, for over a decade. Now Professor Avraham Faust, who is leading the excavation, has hailed a discovery which could help settle the debate about the existence of the Kingdoms of David and Solomon. For decades, academics have remained unsure whether they truly existed as described in the Bible.

The Israeli media continues to be dominated by the aftermath of Netanyahu’s presentation about Iranian nuclear ambitions on Monday night.

Yediot Ahronoth’s focuses on the nuclear physicist who it calls the ‘Dangerous Mind behind the Iranian Nuclear Program’ and also covers new revelations from the operation.

Ma’ariv reports that after its explosure of Iran’s nuclear archive, Israel is prepareing for the ‘diplomatic battle’. It also quotes a senior Israeli intelligence source who said that the intelligence material taken from Tehran was worth its weight in gold. “Never before did we obtain, at one time, such intelligence material, not of this size and not of this variety. Basically, we reached the Iranian reservist units. They guarded this material so as to be able to use it again. The quantity of documents is immense and it provides details on how to produce and develop nuclear weapons. This material is now in our hands and not in theirs, and this is very damaging for the Iranians.”

Maariv also publishes an opinion piece by Uzi Eilam, the former director of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. He argues that “at this time, instead of exiting the agreement, a comprehensive policy toward Iran should be declared, a policy that ensures the security interests of Israel, the US and the entire world…That agreement must include the matter of the long-range missiles, the aid that Tehran gives to terror organisations and Iran’s aspiration to spread Shia throughout the region. And it is possible to conduct productive negotiations when you have almost ten years with an Iran that obeys the terms of the agreement”.

In three separate headlines on its front page, Israel Hayom quotes an Israeli official who clarified that Israel’s goal is to “Wear Out” the Iranians. The paper also adds that Trump is believed to be inclined to exit the Nuclear Agreement with Iran and quotes an exiled Iranian who said that the disclosure of intelligence information has weakened the regime.

Both Maariv and Haaretz report comments by American Officials that Israel was behind the recent strike in Syria. The Times of Israel reports that an Iranian official has threatened to respond to ‘Israeli aggression’ in Syria, ‘at the right time and place’ over attack on Iranian ‘advisers’.

Haaretz reports that the State Attorney’s Office has closed the Umm al-Hiran Case arguing that it is not their “job to say if there was a terror attack”.

Kan Radio News reports that there was a suspected ramming attempt in Jerusalem this morning. The police are looking for a car that swerved out of its lane and headed toward police officers who were standing at a bus stop near National Police Headquarters. They were unhurt and the car got away. The background to the incident is still unclear.

Israel Hayom and Times of Israel quotes comments by the IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot that the IDF has prevented kidnapping attempts along the Gaza border.

The Jerusalem Post reports that three Jerusalem Hamas men have been indicted for planning a shooting.