Netanyahu says Iran will pay ‘very heavy price’ for Israeli civilian deaths
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Iranian missile attacks on Israel on the night of June 14 and early on June 15 killed 10 people and wounded more than 200.
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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 15 that Iran would pay “a very heavy price” for killing Israeli civilians, as the two foes kept up intense fighting.
“Iran will pay a very heavy price for the premeditated murder of civilians, women and children,” Mr Netanyahu said during a visit to the site of a missile strike on a residential building in the coastal city of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv.
Iran’s missile attacks on Israel
Missiles that broke through Israel’s air defence system also caused damage and destruction in several areas, including Bat Yam, Tel Aviv and in the country’s north.
Israel’s military censorship forbade journalists from sharing footage or the exact locations of missile hits inside the country.
“Israel absolutely had to carry out this operation,” Mr Netanyahu said in reference to the waves of strikes carried out across Iran on military and nuclear sites since the morning of June 13.
The operation, dubbed “Rising Lion”, officially aims to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and has hit more than 250 targets, according to the Israeli military.
“We will reach all our objectives, and we will eliminate the double existential threat,” Mr Netanyahu added, referring to Iran’s nuclear programme and its ballistic missile capabilities. AFP
