{"id":345045,"date":"2026-03-18T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/345045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:20:10","slug":"irans-army-leader-vows-decisive-retaliation-for-death-of-security-chief-in-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/345045\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s army leader vows &#8216;decisive&#8217; retaliation for death of security chief in Israeli strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon says six killed as Israel strikes Beirutpublished at 03:45 GMT<\/p>\n<p>03:45 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Damaged building in Beirut after Israeli strikes\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ca39468a-84a7-4f44-88d4-64413e06498f.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Israel has been carrying out strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon&#8217;s capital Beirut, where the health ministry says at<br \/>\nleast six people were killed and 24 others injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that the figures<br \/>\nare preliminary and the victims&#8217; identities &#8220;will be determined after DNA<br \/>\ntesting&#8221;, a statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local media previously reported one strike hit an apartment building in the central Zuqaq al-Blat<br \/>\nneighbourhood, which is close to the government headquarters and several<br \/>\nembassies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second strike also hit<br \/>\nthe central Basta district, with witnesses hearing several explosions,<br \/>\naccording to AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah launched rockets towards Israel in response to US-Israeli strikes that killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanon says six killed as Israel strikes Beirutpublished at 03:45 GMT 03:45 GMT Image source, EPA Meanwhile, Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-345045","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\/345045","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=345045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}