The Independent reports comments by US envoy Erin Barclay at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that “the obsession with Israel… is the largest threat to this council’s credibility”. The report says that President Donald Trump is considering withdrawing the United States from the council.

The Independent also reports that Elor Azaria has decided to appeal his conviction for manslaughter, after he shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in Hebron last year. The report says that three of Azaria’s four-person legal team have resigned, saying that they would have advised different options to an appeal, such as pursuing a Presidential pardon.

The Daily Mail includes a feature on female combat soldiers in the Israel Defence Forces. It says that 92 per cent of positions in Israel’s army were open to women last year and notes that more than 500 female Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat since the founding of the state in 1948.

The Daily Mirror includes an investigative article on binary options, documenting UK citizens who have lost large amounts of money after being cold-called by representatives from binary options companies. The article describes Tel Aviv as “the epicentre of binary trading”. A group of Israeli parliamentarians have proposed legislation to restrict the activities of binary options companies.

The Independent and the online edition of the Guardian both cover a United Nations’ report on the capture of Aleppo by Syrian government forces in September. The report accuses government fighters of deliberately attacking an aid convoy and calls the forced evacuation of residents from the east of the city a “war crime”.

In the Israeli media, the fallout from Tuesday’s State Comptroller report on the 2014 Gaza conflict continues. The top story in Haaretz, also covered by Israel Radio, is an interview on Channel Two yesterday evening by former – IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who was criticised in the report. Gantz said that he was satisfied with his performance during Operation Protective Edge and that criticism of him was nothing more than “hindsight” and political leaders “evading responsibility”.

Yediot Ahronot says that Yesh Atid MK Ofer Shelach is pushing for the adoption of a bill he spearheaded three months ago which would delineate and define the responsibilities of the security cabinet. The role and performance of the security cabinet was a major focus of the State Comptroller report.

In Maariv, Meir Kraus of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research praises the report, because it did not just analyse events, but raised “the question of whether alternatives had been discussed that could possibly have averted the war”.

The top story in Haaretz is an assessment by IDF Military Intelligence chief Herzl Halevy to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee yesterday. He said that although Hamas is not seeking a conflict at this point, Gaza is close to crisis and that frustration in the West Bank could also lead to clashes.

Both Israel Hayom and Israel Radio news report that a rocket was fired yesterday evening into southern Israel from Gaza. The rocket landed in an open area without causing injuries or damage. It was the second attack from Gaza this week.