Tel Aviv, June 19 -- Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz on Sunday issued a stark warning, declaring that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "can no longer be allowed to exist" after an Iranian missile strike hit a hospital near Tel Aviv.

Katz accused Khamenei of orchestrating a direct assault on civilians and pledged consequences. "The cowardly Iranian dictator sits in the depths of a fortified bunker and fires missiles at hospitals and residential buildings in Israel.

These are war crimes of the most serious kind - and Khamenei will be held accountable for his crimes," he wrote on X.

He further indicated that Israeli forces would escalate operations aimed at dismantling Iran's leadership structure.

"The Prime Minister an...