**ISTANBUL**
Russia on Tuesday warned of a potential “spiral of escalation” in Gaza amid renewed Israeli attacks on the besieged enclave that killed hundreds of Palestinians, including children and women.
The Israeli army pounded the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing more than 320 people and injuring hundreds, despite a ceasefire agreement.
Images emerging from Gaza showed that the majority of the victims were civilians, including women and children, whose homes were bombed during the night.
“The latest aggravation of the situation, the return to a spiral of escalating tensions, this is what worries us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
Peskov said Moscow is monitoring the situation very closely and expects it to return to a “peaceful course.”
More than 48,500 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 112,000 others injured in a brutal Israeli military campaign in Gaza since October 2023.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants in November last year for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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