The i reports that Israel carried out several air strikes yesterday against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Monday morning. The article notes that Israel holds Hamas responsible for such incidents, as the ruling power in the Gaza Strip.

The Times and Telegraph report that the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) has suspended the president of one of its schools in Gaza after UNWRA’s spokesman said that“substantial information”showed he had been elected to a leading role in Hamas. The Times notes that “UNWRA forbids its employees from holding political office”.

The Guardian online says pro-Palestinian activists at Exeter University, University of Central Lancashire and University of London have accused university officials of undermining freedom of speech after they cancelled some planned events during “Israel Apartheid Week”.

On Syria, the Guardian online reports that a US drone strike in the north-west of the country has killed a senior leader of al-Qaeda who was implicated in the bombing of US embassies in Africa in 1998.

In the Israeli media, the front pages of Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom are dominated by today’s publication of the long-awaited State Comptroller’s report into the political and defence establishments’ handling of the Gaza tunnel threat before and during Operation Protective Edge in 2014. The report is expected to sharply criticise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon and former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz. Israel Hayom’s headline is: “The report and the firestorm.”

Ahead of the report’s publication Netanyahu defended the cabinet’s conduct during the conflict at a meeting of Likud MKs. Netanyahu said that he supported the heads of Israel’s security services “as opposed to the State Comptroller’s report”. Maariv’s Ben Caspit calls the remark “ludicrous” and an act of incitement against the State Comptroller.

Another prominent item in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom is the decision yesterday by the State Attorney’s Office to order a criminal investigation into the purchase of German submarines, citing “reasonable suspicion” of individuals involved in the case. It is alleged that the purchase of submarines from a German steel company was influenced by the business interests of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s lawyer.

After Israel carried out several strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza yesterday in response to a rocket fired Monday morning. Yediot Ahronot’s Alex Fishman warns that Hamas’s “fuse is getting shorter”. He says that “neither Israel nor Hamas want an armed clash,” the “more painful the price the IDF exacts in the Gaza Strip, the more the State of Israel will essentially be forcing [new Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya] Sinwar to make a decision”.

Maariv and Israel Radio news report that Israeli forces and residents in the West Bank settlement of Ofra are readying for what appears to be the imminent forced evacuation of nine homes built on private Palestinian land, following the High Court’s rejection yesterday of a petition to seal, rather than demolish, the buildings.

Israel Radio reports that Facebook closed the official page of the Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, because it showed a picture of Yasser Arafat holding the rifle of an IDF soldier who had been kidnapped by Palestinians in the 1980s.