Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to kill Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem amid the ongoing regional conflict.

Speaking at a press conference, Netanyahu said Iran was no longer the same after joint American and Israeli bombings, claiming the strikes had dealt heavy blows to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Basij forces.

He also said Israeli attacks had killed top Iranian nuclear scientists and severely damaged the country’s nuclear infrastructure and military facilities.

Netanyahu claimed the strikes had prevented Iran from moving its ballistic and nuclear programmes underground and said the lives of Iran’s leadership could not be guaranteed.

He alleged that Khamenei could not appear publicly and described him as a puppet of the Revolutionary Guards.

Addressing the Iranian public, Netanyahu said Israel stands with them and that it is ultimately their decision to remove what he called an oppressive regime.

He added that the ongoing war has opened opportunities for Israel to build new alliances in the region and that actions taken jointly with the United States have helped limit Iran’s nuclear and ballistic programmes.

The Israeli Air Force said it had struck more than 200 targets in western and central Iran in the past 24 hours, including ballistic missile launchers, defence systems and weapons manufacturing facilities.

Israel also continued strikes in Lebanon.

According to Arab media reports, two people were killed and three injured in an Israeli attack on a residential building in the Bekaa Valley, while an ambulance was targeted in the Tahir area.

Reports say that so far 687 people, including 90 children, have been killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, and around 800,000 people have been displaced.