Netanyahu says Hezbollah, proxies will collapse once Iran threat 'removed'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the entire "Shiite axis" including Hezbollah is not responding to Israeli attacks on Iran.

"Hezbollah has not fired a single rocket," Netanyahu said, vowing to "remove" the nuclear and ballistic missile threat posed by Iran, on the seventh day of war between the arch foes.

"If we eliminate Iran, all its proxies will collapse," he said.

"We are committed to destroying the nuclear threat, the threat of a nuclear annihilation against Israel," Netanyahu told reporters in the southern city of Beersheba, where a hospital was hit during an Iranian missile attack.

"Our goal is twofold -– nuclear, ballistic missile. We're going to remove them. We are in the process of completing the (removal of) this threat."