According to the statement made by the Israeli Prime Ministry Press Office, Netanyahu made the statement at the beginning of the security cabinet meeting, Ednews reports via Anadolu Agency.
Stating that Iran has been operating against Israel for years, directly or through its proxies, Netanyahu said, "For this reason, Israel is acting defensively and offensively against Iran and its proxies." he said.
Netanyahu said, "Whoever harms us or plans to harm us, we will harm him too." He said that they acted on a "simple principle".
While tensions rose with the Tehran administration's retaliatory statements for Israel's attack on the consulate building in Iran's embassy campus in Damascus on April 1, Israel announced today that it would form a security cabinet with broad participation and then a war cabinet with the agenda of "tension with Iran".