DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to criticize Israel in candid remarks caught on an open microphone between television interviews Sunday.

Kerry was heard talking about Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza to a State Department official identified as Jonathan Finer just before appearing on the ‘Fox News Sunday’ political talk show, The Straits Times publishes this report on Monday.

‘I hope they don’t think that’s an invitation to go do more,’ Kerry says. ‘That better be the warning to them’.

A frustrated Kerry then says, ‘It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation, it’s a hell of a pinpoint operation’, in apparent frustration over the civilian toll in the Israeli operation.

BDST: 1818 HRS, JUL 21, 2014