Israeli minister has declared that Iran‘s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “can no longer be allowed to exist.”

The country’s defence minister, Israel Katz, accused Khamenei of personally ordering an Iranian attack on a hospital in southern Israel this morning in a salvo targeting several Israeli cities.

Katz stated:

“He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be a goal. Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist.”

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for a “diplomatic solution” to resolve the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Israel’s military also released footage showing an Iranian nuclear reactor being blown up amid fears it was producing material to develop nuclear weapons.

Strikes carried out at the reactor in the Iranian city of Arak were seen in video posted by the IDF.

According to the IDF, the reactor was designed to produce plutonium, a material used to make nuclear weapons.

Katz has described Khamenei as a “modern Hitler.”

Katz said:

“A dictator like Khamenei, who heads a country like Iran and has made the destruction of the State of Israel his declared goal, this horrific goal of destroying Israel, cannot be allowed to continue or materialise.”

“I compare it to the scenario in which, during the horrific Holocaust, if the State of Israel had existed and a strong Israel Defense Forces had existed, and we knew we could send the IDF into a bunker to capture the enemy of the Jewish people, Hitler, in order to thwart his plan to annihilate the Jews, we would have done it.”

“We would have sent the IDF, extracted him, and eliminated him. And just like that, correspondingly, I see the current situation — Khamenei is the modern Hitler.”

Katz continued:

“This is a man who has stood at the head of a powerful nation for decades and has great ideological influence. He uses it and openly says he supports the destruction of Israel.”

“He mobilizes all available resources, even at the expense of his own people, for this purpose. And today we see proof that he is personally giving the order to fire on hospitals and residential buildings.”

“These [repeated missiles strikes on civilian targets] are not a statistical deviation that can be explained away — he sees this as part of the mission to destroy the State of Israel.”

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