© Agence France-Presse/Said KhatibPalestinian boys walk past debris, including Korans and other items from a mosque destroyed in an overnight Israeli military strike, on July 22, 2014, in Rafah the southern Gaza Strip
The latest casualties in the fortnight-long violence have brought the Palestinian death toll to 570, according to AP.
Almost 100 of them are children and many others are civilians.
On Monday, a hospital was hit in Gaza, with four people killed and scores of others wounded in the attack. Thirty of the wounded were medics, according to Sky News.
The International Committee of the Red Cross issued a statement condemning the shelling "in the strongest terms," Reuters reports. The organization stated that the hospital came under fire at least four times, with life-saving equipment severely damaged.
About 2,000 rockets have been launched over the past fortnight, Israeli military says. The country has also been destroying tunnels that Hamas reportedly constructed from Gaza into Israel to carry out attacks.
Israeli military accuses Hamas militants of firing rockets from the grounds of Gaza hospitals and seeking refuge there.
All in all, Israel has lost 29 people - two of them civilians, with two soldiers killed on Tuesday, as stated by the country's militia. This death toll is the highest number of Israeli military deaths since the 2006 Lebanon war.
Violence is raging on the West Bank as well. Medics told Reuters that soldiers shot a Palestinian man dead after cracking down on stone-throwing protesters.
Tel Aviv stated that a Palestinian shot at a car and seriously wounded an Israeli in the Nablus area.
This comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Monday for talks with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the region's plight.
The US is set to give $47 million in humanitarian aid for Gaza, Kerry said.
The US is "deeply concerned about the consequences of Israel's appropriate and legitimate effort to defend itself," Kerry said.
Comment: The statement doesn't even make logical sense! But what do you expect? They keep repeating the lie, inserting it into every sentence that comes out of their mouths, hoping that we will stop counting the corpses of children and unarmed civilians or that we will forget that Gaza is the biggest concentration camp. Meanwhile Hitler turns in his grave because spokesmen like Biden were not around back then to whitewash his own crimes.
"But always, in any kind of conflict, there is a concern about civilians - about children, women, communities that are caught in it," Kerry added, as quoted by Reuters.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to fly to Israel on Tuesday for peace negotiations with the country's premier Benjamin Netanyahu and to meet the Palestinian authorities.
A day earlier, Ban Ki-moon condemned the killings as an "atrocious action," and called for an immediate end to the fighting, urging Israel to "exercise maximum restraint."
"Too many innocent people are dying (and) living in constant fear," he said at news conference in Doha.
Last week, Egypt suggested a roadmap for the ceasefire which Israel accepted, but Hamas rejected.
The ceasefire plan stalled after Hamas requested that Israel and Egypt lift the blockade on the coastal region that has a population of 1.8 million people. Another demand was for Israel to free a few hundred Palestinian inmates detained after the murder of three Jewish teenagers last month, Reuters reported.
"The world must understand that Gaza has decided to end the blockade by its blood and its heroism," deputy Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a televised address on Monday.
That sounds nice until you realize they also give $4 billion a year to Israel to keep destroying Gaza.
"The US is "deeply concerned about the consequences of Israel's appropriate and legitimate effort to defend itself," Kerry said."
I am deeply concerned about Kerry's sincere and legitimate attempts to make a coherent sentence.
I guess he's the new White House clown, now that Bush is gone.
"But always, in any kind of conflict, there is a concern about civilians - about children, women, communities that are caught in it," Kerry added"
Uh, please. When was the last time the United Fucking States were concerned about civilians. Never mind Israel.
"UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to fly to Israel on Tuesday for peace negotiations"
You can stay at home since we all know you won't do shit to help the situation.
"Too many innocent people are dying (and) living in constant fear,"
Wow, you only noticed now? It's been going on for over 60 years.
"Last week, Egypt suggested a roadmap for the ceasefire which Israel accepted, but Hamas rejected."
Let me guess... did the "ceasefire" say something along the lines of "Hamas will stop everything it's doing, and Israel will keep occupying Palestine forever"?
"Hamas requested that Israel and Egypt lift the blockade on the coastal region that has a population of 1.8 million people. Another demand was for Israel to free a few hundred Palestinian inmates"
Well, I guess here we see who rejected what. So yeah, "ceasefire" means Israel keeps illegally occupying Palestine and the Palestinians' demands will be ignored as usual.
At least this time most of the world seems to have a clear idea who the criminal is. Not that it has much effect on the Israel-controlled politicians.