The United Nations is urgently working to de-escalate tensions between Israel and the Palestinians and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is saddened by "the increasingly large numbers of casualties, including children, from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, and of Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
"Israeli security forces must exercise maximum restraint and calibrate their use of force. The indiscriminate launching rockets and mortars towards Israeli population centers is unacceptable," Dujarric told reporters on Tuesday.
REUTERS