By Sam Mednick, Natalie Melzer, Jon Gambrell and Melanie Lidman
Israel’s defense minister threatened Iran’s supreme leader on Thursday after Iranian missiles crashed into a major hospital in southern Israel and hit residential buildings near Tel Aviv, wounding at least 240 people. As rescuers wheeled patients out of the smoldering hospital, Israeli warplanes launched their latest attack on Iran’s nuclear program.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz blamed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for Thursday’s barrage and said the military “has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist.”
In Washington, the White House announced that U.S. President Donald Trump will decide within two weeks whether to join Israel’s campaign against Iran’s military and nuclear program, signaling that Trump still sees a window for diplomacy to address Israeli and U.S. concerns about Iran’s nuclear program.
“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that
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