INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Israels defence minister Israel Katz has stated Irans supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, can no longer be allowed to exist after the Soroka
medical facility was hit during an Iranian missile attack, according to local media and the AFP news agency.Speaking to reporters in Holon,
near Tel Aviv, Israel Katz supposedly said: Khamenei freely declares that he desires Israel destroyed, he personally gives the order to fire
on hospitals.He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be an objective ..
Such a man can no longer be enabled to exist.Earlier, Iranian state media stated the main target of this mornings missile strike was a
military website next to Soroka Hospital, not the healthcare facility itself.Meanwhile, the director-general of Soroka Medical Centre said
several wards at the health center were completely demolished after it was hit by an Iranian missile this morning.There is extensive damage
across the whole medical facility, with damage to buildings, structures, windows, ceilings, across the medical centre, Shlomi Kodesh said.He
said clients had actually been left from the northern surgical structure before the strikes
This specific structure, due to the fact that its an older building, was left by us in the past couple of days, he states, including that
the department was empty at the time it was hit.But other departments that still had patients in them were likewise affected, Kodesh said.We
have 40 injured individuals from individuals who remained in the healthcare facility at the time
The vast bulk of these personnel and patients are most likely injured from broken glass, falling ceilings, and other effects.The health
center will transfer over 200 patients to other medical centres while teams assess the damage, he added.Source: BBC- Agencies
