Gantz appeared to caution against immediate retaliation for Iran’s overnight missile attack, stressing that Israel should respond “at the time that suits us.”

Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz vowed on Sunday that his country will “exact the price” for Iran’s overnight missile attack when the time is right, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government debates how to respond amid escalating regional tensions.

In a statement about the massive attack, Gantz appeared to caution Israel against immediate retaliation, instead expressing the need to first strengthen the kind of “strategic alliance” that allowed the country and its key Western allies to intercept what the military said were more than 300 drones directly from Iran.