{"id":332016,"date":"2026-03-10T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332016\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:29:06","slug":"israel-says-iran-is-using-cluster-munitions-what-to-know-about-the-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332016\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says Iran is using cluster munitions. What to know about the weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2ABOYENTO5HL5GEUPPERMSPRGE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">TEL AVIV, Israel \u2014 Israel says Iran has been firing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-afghanistan-israel-syria-europe-4ac7b012f2b63567ffde368f65283921\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cluster munitions<\/a> throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-israel-us-march-10-2026-acf2af139d179fbef62927a8bf9bea55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their 10-day war<\/a> \u2014 adding a complicated and deadly challenge to Israel\u2019s already-stretched air defenses.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AGB2AHB2VFAULPYHJ44KRONGKE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The warheads burst open at high altitudes, scattering dozens of smaller bomblets across a wide area. The smaller bombs, which at night can resemble orange fireballs, are difficult to intercept and have proven lethal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEL AVIV, Israel \u2014 Israel says Iran has been firing cluster munitions throughout their 10-day war \u2014 adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[122,85,117780,46,3896,163591,43,121,126],"class_list":["post-332016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-general-news","tag-il","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-military-and-defense","tag-ml-cluster-munitions-explainer","tag-news","tag-war-and-unrest","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332016","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=332016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}