Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked by ynet about the possibility of an Iranian surprise attack, and said at a press conference that "the Iranians are preparing for various scenarios and I will not detail them here." He added that "we have caused years of significant damage to Iran, one can debate how much. It's like a person removing cancer from their body and there could be metastases, we knew that if we didn't remove the cancer we would die, so we removed it." Additionally, he said that "this requires us to be fully alert and we are prepared for any scenario."