‘Strategic and moral mistakes’: US politicians step up condemnation of Israel

Democrat warns Hamas could become stronger if Israel wages all-out Rafah assault, while Blinken offers more measured comments

Politicians in the US on Sunday stepped up their denunciation of Israel over its conduct in Gaza, with a leading Democratic senator accusing the key American ally of strategic and moral mistakes" - and secretary of state, Antony Blinken, saying it was testing the boundaries of international law.

In an interview on CNN's State of the Union, the Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate foreign relations committee, warned that Hamas was likely to become stronger if Israel waged an all-out assault in Rafah.