{"id":324487,"date":"2026-03-06T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324487\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:19:09","slug":"israel-bombards-beirut-and-tehran-as-us-says-strikes-on-iran-to-surge-dramatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/324487\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel bombards Beirut and Tehran as US says strikes on Iran to &#8216;surge dramatically&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel warns of intensifying offensive in Iranpublished at 06:03 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:03 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/23231686-4007-4d0d-a14c-993b755541a9.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Yolande Knell<br \/>Middle East correspondent, in Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>      Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watch: Moment explosion rocks Beirut, Lebanon<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Israeli military said that its strikes overnight targeted what it called \u201cregime infrastructure\u201d in Tehran. It says it has also been attacking \u201cHezbollah infrastructure\u201d in the armed group\u2019s strongholds in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel\u2019s military is stressing what it says is its \u201csynchronised action\u201d and \u201ctruly historic co-operation\u201d with US forces in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The IDF chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, said that the initial \u201csurprise strike phase\u201d had involved establishing \u201cair superiority\u201d and attacking ballistic missile sites. He said there would be \u201cadditional surprises\u201d in the next phase to \u201cfurther dismantle the regime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overnight, Israeli warplanes carried out their fourteenth wave of strikes on Iran since Saturday, with heavy bombing reported in Tehran and other cities. On Thursday, sirens warning of Iranian missiles went off repeatedly in Israel with one apparent use of a cluster warhead \u2013 although no injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Lebanon, there were more explosions in southern Beirut overnight, after Israel\u2019s military gave warnings for people to leave entire neighbourhoods \u2013 causing scenes of panic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel warns of intensifying offensive in Iranpublished at 06:03 GMT 06:03 GMT Yolande KnellMiddle East correspondent, in Jerusalem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-324487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}