Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, held a news conference Thursday (June 19) outside Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba after an Iranian attack hit the area.

Netanyahu thanked President Trump for his support and emphasized Israel's objectives in Iran which focus on the removal of the ballistic and nuclear threat.

Soroka Medical Centre director said that following the barrage, 40 people were injured due to the strike and that the centre was evacuated in the past few days, so that the department that was hit was empty at the time.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it was targeting Israeli military and intelligence headquarters near Soroka medical centre in the city of Beersheba in the south of the country.

Soroka reported it had sustained damage.

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BEERSHEBA, ISRAEL (JUNE 19, 2025) (AGENCY POOL - Access all)

1. ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS DURING A VISIT TO SOROKA HOSPITAL THAT WAS HIT IN AN IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACK

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, SAYING:

"President Trump will do what's best for America, I trust his judgment he is a tremendous friend, a tremendous world leader, a tremendous friend of Israel and the Jewish people. We will do what we have to do and we are doing it. We are committed to destroying the nuclear threat, the threat of nuclear annihilation against Israel. We're able to do it and of course, will make our own determination , but I have to say that the partnership with the United States, the partnership with President Trump, with whom I speak to almost every day, is incredible. I think his resolve, his determination and his clarity when he says 'Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon' and for that to take place Iran cannot enrich uranium. It's as simple as that. He gave them the chance to do it through negotiations they strung him along and you don't string along Donald Trump, you know, is you know the game. And I think we're both committed to making sure that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and they won't."

3. NETANYAHU ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS

4.(SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, SAYING:

"They're targeting civilians because they are a criminal regime. They're the arch-terrorists of the world. They want to have nuclear tourism, which will pull the entire world under nuclear blackmail and they would use these weapons. That's what the Ayatollah Khomeini says that he would do. He would use these weapons to wipe Israel off the map. Well he's not going to, we're not going to let him. And we're in the process of achieving a tremendous victory. And our victory is aimed at those two goals. People ask me, 'are we targeting the downfall of the regime?' That may be a result but it's up to the Iranian people to rise for their freedom. Freedom is never cheap. It's never free. Freedom requires...freedom requires these subjugated people to rise up and it's up to them, but we may create conditions that will help them do it. Our goal is twofold: nuclear, ballistic missile, we're going to remove that. We are in the process of completing the removal of this threat."

5. VARIOUS OF NETANYAHU ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS

6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SAYING:

"I ordained that nobody is immune. I prefer not to deal with headlines and let actions speak. I think that in war you need to choose your words carefully and your actions precisely. That is what I ask not only of myself but from my ministers as well, from all of us. Less words, more action."

7. VARIOUS OF NETANYAHU ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS