Netanyahu vows to make Tehran tyrants 'pay full price' after strikes on hospital

Iranian missiles targeted Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and civilian areas in central Israel on Thursday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed.

“We will make the tyrants in Tehran pay the full price,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

According to Magen David Adom, two people were seriously injured and at least 30 others sustained minor injuries from blasts and shrapnel in the latest wave of missile attacks.

The Israeli military announced that 40 fighter jets conducted overnight airstrikes on dozens of military targets across Iran. The large-scale operation involved the deployment of more than 100 munitions, with the aim of crippling Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Among the targets was a non-operational nuclear reactor near Arak, where a core component used in plutonium production was struck. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that the structure was critical to the production of weapons-grade plutonium, and the strike was intended to prevent it from being repurposed for nuclear arms development.

Fighter jets also targeted facilities near Natanz believed to be involved in nuclear weapons research and development. Additional strikes were carried out on missile production sites, air defense system factories, radar installations, and missile storage facilities.

Israel’s Health Minister, Uriel Buso, denounced the missile strike on Soroka Medical Center as a “war crime,” accusing Iran of deliberately targeting civilians and healthcare personnel.

“The missile attack on Soroka is an act of terror and a red line that has been crossed,” Buso said. “This was a war crime by the Iranian regime, deliberately aimed at innocent civilians and medical teams.” He noted that prior emergency planning by the Health Ministry helped prevent what could have been a catastrophic loss of life.