Israeli Press
Israel's front pages lead with the siege method and a splintering right
Graphic: Times of Palestine
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What the Israeli press put in front of its readers on Monday morning, and what a Palestinian reader can take from it.
Ynet#
The site's own investigation leads the file that matters most here. Oded Shalom reports that the blockade of a house at Qusra is a method rather than an incident: outpost youths camp at a village edge, cut its roads and water, and wait for the residents to leave.
Ynet cites Yesh Din's finding that most recorded settler violence has moved out of Area C and into Areas B and A this year.
Beside it the site runs an unsigned column arguing that the army of 2026 is politically deterred — that the chaos in the West Bank and the time it took to decide which grave Gaza incidents would be investigated show a force weakened by political calculation while it hungers for the public appearance of a galloping horse.
The political lead is Itamar Ben Gvir's win over the attorney general. Justice Noam Solberg, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, rejected Gali Baharav-Miara's petition to stop the national security minister speaking at an event marking fifty years of the police volunteer corps, advising only that he submit his remarks to legal advisers in advance. Ben Gvir's response was that she tried to stop us and failed.
Ynet also carries the American warning that Monday is the start of an economic offensive against Iran, with the US treasury secretary saying states or bodies cooperating with Tehran will be shunned, and an explainer by Professor Eyal Zisser on how close Israel now is to a confrontation with Turkey on Syrian soil.
Maariv#
Maariv's politics desk is entirely on the fracture inside the governing bloc. Its analysts Aviv Bushinsky and Avi Mimran read Ofer Winter's new party as a threat to the right rather than an addition to it, and Bushinsky says Netanyahu's interest in this respect is to tell Arab citizens to run to the polls — because Arab votes that fall under the threshold are redistributed to the largest blocs.
The paper reports Elazar Stern joining Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar ten days after leaving Yair Lapid, and Yoav Gallant breaking his silence to attack Netanyahu and the Likud, needle his successor Israel Katz, warn about Turkish entrenchment in Syria, and claim the return of incendiary kites shows Hamas raising its head.
The Times of Israel and the wire#
The English-language paper's overnight file records an Israeli strike that killed a Hamas commander it names as Ismail Abu Ful, and a strike near an aid distribution point that it reports killed two people, one of them a four-year-old child. Netanyahu and Katz threatened intensified strikes and fresh evacuation orders over kites flown from Gaza, at least four of which reached Kibbutz Nahal Oz carrying no explosives.
Two items from the same file belong on this page. Ra'am has assured leaders of the Zionist bloc that it will not make recognition of a Palestinian state a condition of joining a coalition.
And the Mossad director Roman Gofman met the Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani to lower the temperature after Israel bombed a Syrian air base — a meeting Axios reported on Sunday and Israel's own press confirmed on Monday.
What is not the lead#
The child killed near an aid distribution point is a paragraph in a running file. The investigation into how Palestinian villages are emptied is on the same site's front page, three weeks after this newspaper began reporting the siege it describes. Both facts belong to the same morning.
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