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Netanyahu Vows To ‘Exact Full Price’ From Tehran After Iranian Missile Hits Israeli Hospital
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Representative Image)
Isareli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu on Thursday (12 May) vowed to "exact the full price" from Iran after an Iranian missile struck the Soroka Medical Centre in southern Israel, causing significant damage to the facility.
According to The Times of Israel, patients and staff at Soroka Medical Center in southern Israel took cover in shelters Thursday morning after the missile strike caused serious damage.
The hospital attack threatens to escalate hostilities in the miltary conflict between the two countries in West Asia.
“We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran,” Netanyahu vowed Thursday morning in response to the Iranian strikes.
The conflict, that started last week, has seen Israeli strikes on senior Iranian officials and nuclear sites, and Tehran retaliating with ballistic missile barrages.
In response to the Iranian strikes, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has been asked to target strategic sites in Iran.
"The cowardly Iranian dictator sits in the depths of the fortified bunker and fires aimed shots at hospitals and residential buildings in Israel. These are war crimes of the most serious kind - and Khamenei will be held accountable for his crimes," he said.
“The Prime Minister and I have instructed the IDF to increase the intensity of attacks against strategic targets in Iran and against government targets in Tehran in order to remove threats to the State of Israel and undermine the ayatollah’s regime," Katz added.
Meanwhile, Israel launched a strike on Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, according to Iranian state TV.
The Arak facility uses heavy water, which produces plutonium as a byproduct—a potential nuclear bomb material, Politico reported.
The now-scrapped 2015 US-Iran nuclear accord had required Iran to modify it to reduce such risks.
Iranian state media claimed the reactor posed “no radiation danger” and had been evacuated before the strike.
The IDF had earlier warned Arak’s residents via social media to leave the area.
The IDF reported that Iran fired around 30 ballistic missiles into Israel Thursday morning. Several hit residential areas in central Israel, critically injuring three civilians.
European leaders have urged both sides to show restraint, though their mediation attempts have made little headway so far.
