Israeli Press
Israel's front pages lead with Turkey, polls and a Hebron killing
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What the Israeli press put in front of its readers this weekend, and what a Palestinian reader can take from it.
Ynet#
The site's Saturday front is built on the confrontation with Ankara. Its lead carries the American ambassador Tom Barrack's assessment that Israel may have wanted to draw Turkey into a clash, and that such a clash would play well in the election, while a second piece walks through Turkey's request for an Interpol arrest notice for Benjamin Netanyahu and the prime minister's office calling President Erdogan an antisemitic dictator.
Below that, Ynet reports that the United States intends again to keep Mahmoud Abbas out of the General Assembly, and publishes a critical account of the police statement on the killing of a Palestinian teenager near Sa'ir, noting what the statement left out.
Maariv#
Maariv leads its politics pages with the election. Its weekend poll puts Gadi Eisenkot's list at twenty-six seats and the opposition bloc at sixty, one short of a majority, and reports that half of Israelis polled fear the losing side will not accept the result.
Its most consequential item for Palestinians is elsewhere: an exclusive by Anna Barsky reporting that the Shin Bet, in closed discussions, expects Hamas to run in November's Palestinian election through a coalition of factions, because the 2025 amendment requires every list to recognise the PLO.
Haaretz#
Haaretz's news pages carry the State Department's line that the United States does not support Israeli annexation of the West Bank, published after Israel opened the E1 tender and after eight Arab and Muslim states condemned it.
The paper also reports that Poland summoned Israel's ambassador over the army's decision not to open a criminal investigation into the killing of the World Central Kitchen aid workers, one of whom was the Polish citizen Damian Sobol, and that Warsaw is running an investigation of its own.
Arutz Sheva and Channel 12#
The settlement movement's outlet ran the prime minister's office reply to Turkey and an opinion piece marking twenty-one years since the Gaza disengagement, which ends on the line that Gaza is ours.
Channel 12's military desk published the location it says the first multinational force will enter in Gaza — north-west of Rafah, beyond the original yellow line, on ground the army has cleared in recent weeks.
