Israel calls on world to condemn Gaza attacks

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel is calling on world governments to condemn rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon says the government expects “decision makers around the world” to issue “unilateral condemnations of the terror attacks.”

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 50 rockets and mortars into southern Israel on Tuesday, the largest barrage since the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.

Earlier Tuesday, Emanuele Giaufret, the EU envoy to Israel, tweeted that “indiscriminate attacks are totally unacceptable and to be condemned unreservedly.” Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney tweeted that “this Hamas led violence undermines Palestinian cause + is counterproductive to political progress.”