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Iranian President Says Israel Must Cease ‘Crimes’ or Face Reaction

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 24, 2024 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 24, 2024 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)
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Iranian President Says Israel Must Cease ‘Crimes’ or Face Reaction

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 24, 2024 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 24, 2024 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday that Israel would face a harsh reaction if it did not stop what he called "its crimes".

He was speaking a day after Iran fired waves of ballistic missiles at Israel, and Israel stepped up its war with Tehran's proxy Hezbollah by sending troops over the border into Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he would strike back at Iran following the missile attack.

"If the Zionist regime (Israel) does not stop its crimes, it will face harsher reactions," Iran's Pezeshkian said as he left for a scheduled trip to Qatar, state media reported.

Pezeshkian told state television that the first goal in Doha was to discuss bilateral ties and sign agreements with the Qatari government. He will also attend a summit of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue.

"The second goal is to discuss how Asian countries can prevent Israeli crimes in the region...and prevent enemies from causing uproar in the Middle East," Pezeshkian said.

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Israel Kills Dozens in Gaza, Sends Tanks into Southern Areas, Medics Say

A Palestinian boy looks on at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
A Palestinian boy looks on at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
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Israel Kills Dozens in Gaza, Sends Tanks into Southern Areas, Medics Say

A Palestinian boy looks on at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
A Palestinian boy looks on at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 60 Palestinians overnight, including in a school sheltering displaced families, medics said, as Israeli tanks advanced in areas of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave.

Israeli tanks carried out a raid on several areas in eastern and central Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, before partially retreating, leaving at least 40 people killed and dozens wounded, according to the official Voice of Palestine radio and Hamas media.

In Gaza City, at least 22 Palestinians were killed, the medics said. One Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City killed 17 people, while another hit the Al-Amal Orphan Society, which also houses displaced persons, killing at least five others, the medics said.

The escalation came after Iran launched a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for Israel's campaign against Tehran's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon, and Israel vowed a "painful response" against its enemy.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, locked in nearly a year of war with Israel, celebrated as they watched dozens of rockets en route to Israel. Some of those rockets fell in the Palestinian enclave after being intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defenses, but caused no human losses, witnesses said.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel almost a year ago, in support of its ally Hamas in the war in Gaza, which began after the militant group staged the deadliest assault in Israel's history on Oct. 7.

The assault, in which Israel says 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 taken hostage, triggered the war that has devastated Gaza, displacing most of its 2.3 million population and killing more than 41,600 people, according to Gaza health authorities.