Netanyahu says Israel will exact full price from ‘tyrants’ in Tehran after hospital attack

nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Iran would “pay a heavy price” after a missile hit a hospital in Israel’s south.

“This morning, Iran’s terrorist dictators fired missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva and at civilians in the center of the country. We will make the tyrants in Tehran pay a heavy price,” Netanyahu said in a post on X.

For his part Israel’s defense minister said that Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei would be “held accountable” after an Iranian strike on a hospital in Israel, adding he had ordered the army to “intensify strikes” on Iran.

“These are some of the most serious war crimes -- and Khamenei will be held accountable for his actions,” Israel Katz said, adding that he and the prime minister ordered the military “to intensify strikes against strategic targets in Iran and against the power infrastructure in Tehran, in order to eliminate the threats to the state of Israel and to shake the Ayatollahs’ regime.”