By: Fox News-Anders Hagstrom/Lorraine Taylor/Peter Doocy-19 June 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to exact a "full price" from Iran on Thursday after a ballistic missile struck the Soroka Hospital in southern Israel. Iranian state television accused Israel of striking its Arak heavy water reactor prior to the attack.

Israel-Iran conflict live: Israeli minister says Khamenei ‘can no longer be allowed to exist’ after hospital strike

Fast Facts

• Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva, Israel, took a direct hit from an Iranian ballistic missile Thursday morning.
• Between three and six other missiles impacted Israel in the attack, injuring at least 65 people.
• Israel attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, Iranian state television said.

Soroka hospital still on fire after suffering direct hit in Iranian missile attack

Fox News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst was outside Soroka Medical Center on Thursday after it was hit by Iran in a major missile attack.

Yingst reported that the hospital was still burning. It is located in the city of Be'er Sheva in southern Israel.

The hospital suffered a direct hit from Iranian ballistic missiles.

At least 65 people were injured in Israel during the missile barrage that began Thursday morning. It is unclear how many people were injured in the strike on the hospital.

Fox News' Lorraine Taylor contributed to this report

Israel makes direct threat against Iran's top leader in wake of Soroka Hospital strike

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz made the most direct threat to date against Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday.

Katz says the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been instructed that Khamenei "should not continue to exist," though he stopped short of saying there was a specific operation targeting the Iranian leader.

"A dictator like Khamenei, who heads a country like Iran and has made the destruction of Israel his mission, cannot continue to exist," Katz said, according to The Associated Press.

"The IDF has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist," he added.

Katz's comments come as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the public outside Soroka Hospital, which was struck by Iranian missile fire Thursday morning. More than 70 people inside the hospital were injured, Israel says.

President Donald Trump is asking his advisors about the effectiveness of bunker buster bombs against Iran's nuclear infrastructure, Fox News has learned.

A U.S. official told Fox News that bunker busters are just one of the options Trump is considering, and he has not yet decided to intervene in the Israel-Iran conflict. The official noted that "all options" remain on the table.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katx also lashed out at Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday, saying the IDF "has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist.”

Fox News' Peter Doocy contributed to this report

China's Xi holds call with Vladimir Putin over Israel-Iran conflict

Chinese President Xi Jinping held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Israel-Iran conflict on Thursday.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning announced the call on social media Thursday, saying Xi made a series of proposals.

"China stands ready to strengthen communication and coordination with all relevant parties, foster synergy, uphold justice, and play a constructive role in restoring peace in the Middle East," Mao wrote.

Mao said Xi hopes to promote a ceasefire to end hostilities, ensure the safety of civilians, open a longer term dialogue between Israel and Iran as well as galvanize the global community to push the two nations toward peace.

20 Israeli jets strike Iranian missile batteries, truck convoy: IDF

Israel launched 20 jets on a mission to Western Iran on Thursday to destroy Iranian missile batteries and other military targets, the IDF says.

Israel's military says it successfully destroyed multiple Iranian surface-to-surface missile emplacements. They also say they destroyed a convoy of Iranian trucks carrying more such missiles.

News of the strikes comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed retaliation for an Iranian ballistic missile that struck Soroka Hospital in Southern Israel on Thursday morning.

At least 65 people were injured in Iran's Thursday morning attacks across Israel.

Trump downplays signs of MAGA unrest over possible military strike on Iran

President Donald Trump appears to be downplaying talk that some of his long-loyal MAGA supporters are breaking with him over the possibility that the president will order a military strike on Iran.

This amid the nearly week-long daily trading of fire between the Islamic State and Israel, America's top ally in the Middle East.

"My supporters are more in love with me today, and I’m more in love with them, more than they even were at election time," the president said when asked about a GOP rift between some of his most vocal supporters of his America First agenda, and more traditional national security conservatives.

The president, speaking to reporters on Wednesday on the South Lawn of the White House, added: "I may have some people that are a little bit unhappy now, but I have some people that are very happy, and I have people outside of the base that can’t believe that this is happening. They’re so happy."

Asked if he would order an attack on Iran to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, the president said, "I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran’s got a lot of trouble."

The prospect of Trump jumping into the incredibly volatile situation in the Middle East is causing plenty of consternation among some of his top political and ideological allies, and creating divisions within MAGA - a rare moment for a movement that's been firmly supportive of Trump since his 2016 White House campaign.

This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News' Paul Steinhauser

Iran claims its foreign minister will meet with European counterparts in Geneva

Iran's foreign minister is set to meet with European counterparts in Geneva amid the ongoing conflict with Israel, Iranian state media reported Thursday.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Geneva for the meetings on Friday, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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