South Africa is in the process of issuing a "demarche" to Israeli ambassador Eliav Belotsercovsky, the director-general of South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Zane Dangor, said on Wednesday."The demarche will be asked for hopefully by today. Not sure when he will come in," Dangor told Reuters in a text message, without giving further details.Earlier this week South Africa recalled its diplomats from Israel to assess its relationship with the country amid a rise in civilian casualties from its war with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

The FBI and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) campus police have launched an investigation following a series of threatening anti-Semitic emails sent to Jewish faculty members on campus.The president of the university, Liz Magill, messaged students and faculty that "several members of our Jewish community have received vicious and disturbing anti-Semitic emails, threatening violence against them." According to her, the messages were aimed directly at the recipients and included personal details.The threats come amid growing tensions on campuses in the United States following the war between Israel and Hamas.