JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting at wider military action in devastated Gaza even as some former army and intelligence chiefs call for an end to the war. The new pressure on Netanyahu comes as Gaza’s Health Ministry on Tuesday said the war’s Palestinian death toll has surpassed 61,000. Previous leaders of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service, Mossad spy agency and the military are among those speaking out. Meanwhile, health officials have reported new deaths of hungry people seeking food. Families of the 50 hostages remaining in Gaza fear that hunger endangers them too, and they blame Hamas.
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