Iran would pay a very heavy price for killing civilians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after a missile strike hit a residential building in Bat Yam early Sunday, killing six Israelis and wounding dozens more.
“Iran will pay a very heavy price for the murder of civilians — women, children — that it carried out deliberately,” Netanyahu said at the scene, according to a statement from his office.
“We will achieve our objectives, and we will strike them with overwhelming force.”
Four more people were killed in a separate strike on the northern town of Tamra. Netanyahu framed the confrontation as existential.
“Think about what would happen if Iran had a nuclear weapon to drop on Israel’s cities,” he warned. “That is why we launched a war of rescue… Our soldiers, our pilots, are above the skies of Iran.”
He expressed condolences to the victims’ families and urged the public to follow safety instructions from the Home Front Command.
“Protect your lives — and together, with God’s help, we will win,” he said.
