Israel says Iran will pay for hospital airstrike; world awaits Trump decision: Live
Israel bombed Iran's only working nuclear reactor, a power plant on the Persian Gulf coast.
Portrait of Dan MorrisonDan Morrison
USA TODAYThe conflict has killed hundreds of Iranians and scores of Israelis since Israel launched a surprise attack on nuclear and military targets on June 13. Israeli warplanes struck three nuclear sites in Iran on June 18, while a military spokesman walked back an earlier Israeli claim to have bombed Iran's only functioning nuclear power plant.Iran was targeting Israeli intelligence site when hospital was struck, state media says
Iran's state-owned IRNA news outlet said its ballistic missiles were aimed at Israeli Defense Forces and intelligence targets located in the same area.The claim of an attack on an intelligence base or the presence of military equipment under the hospital is another lie. We are not so despicable as to endanger civilians,” the IDF said in a Persian-language statement, the Times of Israel reported. “Attacking hospitals is a crime. Fabricating a reason does not justify it.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge after a hospital was struck by an Iranian ballistic missile, as the world waited for news of whether President Donald Trump would commit U.S. forces to Israel's campaign against Iran's nuclear program.
"This morning, Iran's terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in the center of the country," Netanyahu said in a statement. "We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran."
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