Iran's defense minister on Saturday accused Israel and the Islamic State of pursuing the same goals in the Middle East: killing innocents and destroying economic infrastructures in an effort to minimize anti-Zionist sentiment in the region, the Iranian news agency Fars reported.

Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan made the remarks equating Israel and the Islamic State in a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Samir Mokbel. The two met to discuss expanding military and security cooperation, according to Fars.

The Fars piece also said that Israeli hospitals have been treating Islamic State militants wounded fighting in Syria. Some 1,200 Syrians have been treated in Israel, reportedly at a cost of about $10 million, since the start of the country's civil war in 2011.

Fars also reported that Kurdish forces found Israeli food packages and equipment in Islamic State headquarters in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Iraq. It added, however, that Kurdish sources "refrained from revealing more details about their findings."

Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu equated Islamic State with Hamas and its sponsor, Iran, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly.

"Militant Islam’s ambition to dominate the world seems mad, but so too did the global ambitions of another fanatic ideology that swept into power eight decades ago," Netanyahu said.

"The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith. They just disagree who among them will be the master of the master faith. That’s what they truly disagree about. And therefore, the question before us is whether militant Islam will have the power to realize its unbridled ambitions.

"There is one place where that could soon happen -- the Islamic State of Iran. For 35 years, Iran has relentlessly pursued the global mission which was set forth by its founding ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini, in these words. “We will export our revolution to the entire world until the cry ‘there is no god but Allah’ will echo throughout the world over.” And ever since, the regime’s brutal enforcers, Iran’s revolutionary guards, have done exactly that."

