News:
The ICC chief prosecutor Bensouda [1] says she is weighing opening war crimes investigations into Palestinians as well as Israelis. (AFP)
Israeli occupation forces detain three Palestinians [2] in southern Nablus. (Ma’an)
Street artist Banksy [3] finds a canvas and a new fanbase in Gaza’s ruins. (New York Times)
The Islamic University in Gaza introduces [4] two diploma programs for hearing-impaired students. (Al-Monitor)
Israelis [5] of Ethiopian origin [6] protest police violence [7] in Jerusalem [8]. (Reuters/AP/AFP/JTA)
Israel blames its Arab neighbors [9] for the failure of progress [10] toward achieving a Middle East free of nuclear weapons. (Ha’aretz/Times of Israel)
Islamist rebels and the Syrian army [11] fight in Latakia province close to Pres. Assad's ancestral home. (Reuters)
Kobani is still a ghost town [12], months after the liberation from ISIS. (AP)
A year after opening Azraq camp [13] in Jordan, billed as an improved model for sheltering Syrian refugees, has a mixed record. (AP)
A proposal to arm Sunnis [14] adds to Iraqi suspicions of the US. (New York Times)
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition [15] target a residential district in Sanaa, killing ten civilians. (Reuters)
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Economic Council [16] approves a restructuring of state oil company [17] Aramco. (Reuters/Al Arabiya)
VP Biden [18]says the US is willing to go to war [19] to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. (JTA/Times of Israel)
FM Zarif congratulates [20] his newly-installed Saudi counterpart on his appointment. (AFP)
Commentary:
Amos Harel [21] says the secret talks hold hope for a lengthy Hamas-Israel truce. (Ha’aretz)
Hussein Ibish [22] says King Salman's recent move concentrates his own power and that of his Sudairi relatives for the foreseeable future. (NOW)
Hussein Ibish [23] says recent changes in the Saudi government consolidate King Salman’s power. (AGSIW)
Salman Aldossary [24] says King Salman is restructuring the Saudi state and regulating the work of the government. (Asharq al-Awsat)
David Ignatius [25] says Iran wants dialogue with the region. (Washington Post)
Zvi Bar’el [26] says Iran is already preparing for the day after sanctions are lifted. (Ha’aretz)
Jamal Khashoggi [27] says Iran does not want Saudi Arabia to emerge victorious in Yemen. (Al Arabiya)
Majid Rafizadeh [28] says Iranian leaders will not change their regional ambitions, sectarian agenda and revolutionary principles. (Al Arabiya)
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