Shiite Cleric Maulana Syed Kalbe Jawad Naqvi has urged the United Nations to take quick action against Israel and to ensure that air strikes on the Gaza Strip are stopped.
He termed the attack as most cruel in history, and added that the bloodshed should stop immediately.
"The bloodshed should be stopped immediately. The United Nations must take quick action against Israel; similarly our country which has always stood against such atrocities should raise its concern, so I urge the Indian government to protest against the Israeli air strikes to stop the bloodshed. I have never seen such cruelty before as we are seeing bodies of children mutilated by Israel attacks," said Naqvi.
The Shiite cleric further requested the Union government to change its policies towards Israel and said that policies remain pro-Israel whether it is Congress or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
"I urge the Indian government to change its policies towards Israel and take stand for the people of Gaza and wherever in the world such injustice and cruelty takes place, India should stand for the victims. The country has always had pro Israel be it Congress or present Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government," he added.
The Israeli military continue their strikes in Gaza, in the worst flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian violence in almost two years.
Israeli aircraft and naval gunboats attacked 204 targets in the strip overnight, the army Palestinian health officials said at least 20 people were wounded.
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Palestinian militants fired more than 20 rockets into Israel, the Israeli military added but no casualties were reported.
In the north of Gaza more than a quarter of the residents of Beit Lahiya fled, after Israel had threatened to intensify attacks in the area.
International calls for a ceasefire have grown as the death toll has mounted in the worst flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence for almost two years, sparked by the murder of three Israeli teenagers and revenge killing of a Palestinian youth.
The European Union said on Monday it was in touch with "all parties in the region" to press for an immediate halt to the hostilities, a day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry offered to help secure a Gaza truce.
Egypt and Qatar were also involved but peace efforts were complicated by Hamas' rejection of a mere "calm for calm" in which both sides hold their fire in favour of wider conditions including prisoner release and an end to Israel's Gaza blockade.
The Israeli army said its aircraft and naval gunboats attacked dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip and that Palestinian militants fired more than 20 rockets into Israel, slightly wounding a boy in the town of Ashdod, where a home was damaged. Palestinian health officials said at least 20 people in Gaza were wounded.
Al-Mezan, a Gaza-based Palestinian human rights group, said 869 Palestinian homes have been destroyed or damaged in Israeli attacks over the past week.
The current Israeli offensive, which began last Tuesday, has claimed the lives of at least 191 civilians, including 30 children, media reports said.
There have been no fatalities in Israel since the border hostilities intensified. Iron Dome, which is Israeli-built and partly funded by the United States, has intercepted many of the rocket salvoes.