(19 Jun 2025)
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Holon, Israel – 19 June 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister:
"We decided on the goals of the war. The goals are to eliminate the nuclear threat and put an end to the missile threat. Amid this, the IDF has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist."
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3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister:
"I see the situation, a modern dictator like (Iran’s Supreme Leader) Khamenei, who heads a country, he has great ideological influence and he uses it and says he is in favor of eliminating Israel. He uses all means on the account of his people to achieve the goal. Today, we see evidence that he personally gives orders to fire at hospitals."
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STORYLINE:
Israel’s defense minister overtly threatened Iran’s supreme leader on Thursday after the latest missile barrage from Iran damaged a major hospital and hit a high-rise and several other residential buildings near Tel Aviv.
At least 40 people were wounded in the attacks, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service.
Black smoke rose from the Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beersheba as emergency teams evacuated patients.
There were no serious injuries in the strike on the hospital.
In the aftermath of the strikes, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz blamed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and said the military "has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist.”
U.S. officials said this week that President Donald Trump had vetoed an Israeli plan to kill Khamenei.
Trump later said there were no plans to kill him “at least not for now.”
Israel, meanwhile, carried out strikes on Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, in its latest attack on the country’s sprawling nuclear program, on the seventh day of a conflict that began with a surprise wave of Israeli airstrikes targeting military sites, senior officers and nuclear scientists.
A Washington-based Iranian human rights group said at least 639 people, including 263 civilians, have been killed in Iran and more than 1,300 wounded.
In retaliation, Iran has fired some 400 missiles and hundreds of drones, killing at least 24 people in Israel and wounding hundreds.
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