Following Thursday morning’s missile barrage that struck several civilian targets, including the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, Israeli leaders sharply escalated their rhetoric, publicly stating for the first time that ending the ayatollah regime in Tehran is among Israel’s war objectives.
“Iran’s terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in the center of the country,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
“We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran,” he added.
Defense Minister Israel Katz was even harsher in his statements, saying he and Netanyahu have “instructed the IDF to intensify strikes against strategic targets in Iran and government-related targets in Tehran, in order to eliminate threats to the State of Israel and destabilize the ayatollah regime.”
Hours later, Katz visited one of the impact sites and vowed Israel would continue the military operation “until the end.”
“A dictator like Khamenei, who heads a country like Iran and has made the destruction of the State of Israel his declared goal, this horrific goal of destroying Israel, cannot be allowed to continue or materialize,” he told reporters.
“I compare it to the scenario in which, during the horrific Holocaust, if the State of Israel had existed and a strong IDF had existed, and we knew we could send the IDF into a bunker to capture the enemy of the Jewish people, Hitler, in order to thwart his plan to annihilate the Jews, we would have done it.”
“And just like that, correspondingly, I see the current situation – Khamenei is the modern Hitler,” Katz said.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar wrote in a cryptic post on 𝕏: “The Iranian regime fired a ballistic missile at a hospital. The Iranian regime deliberately targets civilians. The Iranian regime is committing war crimes. The Iranian regime has no red lines. Noted.”
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