US lawmakers in Congress ramped up calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Thursday after more than 100 Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd collecting aid near Gaza City. Several politicians from the governing Democrat Party said the massacre, in which 112 Palestinians were killed and over 700 wounded on Al Rashid Street in north Gaza, showed that bringing greater quantities of aid into the war-battered Strip must be prioritised by US diplomats. The US administration has maintained its full-fledged support of Israel’s war on Gaza, despite increasing ca…