Tel Aviv, June 19 -- Israel Defence Minister Israel Katz while visiting the site of a missile strike at a hospital in Holon, said that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is "the modern Hitler" and "cannot continue to exist," The Times of Israel reported.

Katz said that under the IDF's war goals, "without question this man should not continue to exist."

"A dictator like Khamenei, who heads a country like Iran and has made the destruction of the State of Israel his declared goal, this horrific goal of destroying Israel, cannot be allowed to continue or materialize," The Times of Israel quoted him as saying.

"I compare it to the scenario in which, during the horrific Holocaust, if the State of Israel had existed and a strong Isr...