Jerusalem - The Israeli military said a US/UN backed Gaza ceasefire that went into effect earlier on Friday is over while military operations continued on the ground.
Jerusalem - Israel confirmed on Friday it has accepted a proposal for a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas, which starts at 0500 GMT.
Jerusalem - The Israeli military says it is resuming the offensive on the Gaza Strip, cutting short a temporary ceasefire after Hamas militants rejected the truce and continued to fire rockets at Israel.
Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has appointed two envoys to the Middle East -- former Minister Zola Skweyiya and former Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad.
Paris - The wreckage of an Air Algeria airliner with 116 people on board has been found in Mali, near its border with Burkina Faso, the French Presidential Office said on Friday.
Cape Town – President Jacob Zuma will dispatch a team to Israel to convey government’s concerns over the inhumane killings through the ground invasion on the Gaza strip.
Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has sent condolences to the families and friends of the victims the Malaysian Airline plane that crashed in the Ukraine on Thursday.
Pretoria - The South African government has strongly condemned the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Defence Force.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia will send a group of 62 specialists to the crash site of its passenger airliner in Ukraine’s Donetsk Region, Malaysian Minister of Transport Hussein Hishammuddin said on Friday.
Jerusalem/Gaza - Israeli troops launched a ground offensive in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday night, after days of heavy bombardment, the military said.
