Following Irans huge missile attack on Israel Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement warning: “Iran has made a big mistake tonight, and will pay for it.”

Netanyahu spoke shortly after Iran launched hundreds of missiles at central and southern Israel.

According to reports most if them were intercepted by Israeli and American air defenses. Only a few landed.

Breitbart reports: He began his remarks by offering condolences to the families of the victims of a terror attack that took place in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, earlier in the evening, when two gunmen opened fire on commuters, killing six innocent civilians.

He thanked the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for defending the country from the missile attack, and thanked the United States. Then he launched into his warning, vowing that the Iranian regime would learn what his proxies had learned: that Israel is determined to defend itself, and to punish its enemies.

He repeated a warning he delivered at the United Nations General Assembly last Friday — as Israeli warplanes were bombing Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, killing arch-terrorist Hassan Nasrallah: “If you strike us, we will strike you.”

Netanyahu did not specify when, where, or how an Israeli counterattack might happen. Earlier in the evening, IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari warned that Israel would strike back “in the place and in the time that we determine.”