Iran warns Israel it will face ‘another shockwave’ if Gaza strikes don’t stop

Iran warns Israel it will face ‘another shockwave’ if Gaza strikes don’t stop

A top Iranian commander warned Israel on Tuesday it will face “another shockwave” of attacks by militant groups if the country doesn’t halt its relentless bombardment of Gaza.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards deputy commander-in-chief, Ali Fadavi, made the chilling threat after an attack on a refugee camp took out a top Hamas commander.

“The resistance front’s shocks against the Zionist regime will continue until this ‘cancerous tumor’ is eradicated from the world map,” Fadavi said, according to Iranian news agency Fars.

Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blamed the US for Israel’s retaliatory strikes on the enclave — as he called the assault a “genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

“Our numerous intelligence reports show that the US is formulating the Zionist regime’s current policy and what is being done is governed by US policymaking. The US must be held responsible for this situation,” Khamenei said in a speech posted on X.

The comments also came as an airstrike on Tuesday killed about 500 Palestinians at a Gaza City hospital crammed with patients and displaced people, Hamas-run health authorities in the enclave said.

The strike on the Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital was the bloodiest single incident in Gaza since the war broke out on Oct. 7.

“There are scores of dismembered and crushed bodies, baths of blood,” Izzat El-Reshiq, a senior Hamas member, told Reuters.

Israel’s military has denied responsibility for the attack, saying military intelligence suggested the hospital was hit by a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad military group.

“An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit,” an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said.