Russia urged Israel Friday to exercise restraint in the Gaza crisis with the foreign ministry in Moscow expressing "deep concern", the Interfax news agency reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking by phone with his counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, cautioned that Israel and the Islamic Hamas movement must not fall into a spiral of violence, DPA reported.
Everything must be done to calm the situation, Lavrov was quoted as saying by the Russian news agency.