Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said on the third anniversary of the October 7 attack that this attack marked the start of the “Iranian Axis” plan to destroy Israel.

He said: “The camp of evil tried to hit us with a triple ring of fire; terrorist proxy groups around us, thousands of deadly rockets targeting our land, and above all, a nuclear explosion that was meant to destroy our country and erase it from the face of the earth. This triple plan was Iran’s.”

Netanyahu added that Israel has struck Iran’s Islamic Republic proxy groups, Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles, and its nuclear program, and has created buffer deterrent zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria.