{"id":424960,"date":"2026-05-04T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:19:10","slug":"uae-briefly-issues-alert-for-potential-missile-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/424960\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE briefly issues alert for &#8216;potential missile threats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates issued a mobile phone alert for a potential missile attack on Monday before cancelling it, nearly a month into the Middle East war&#8217;s fragile ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions remain high in the blockaded Strait of Hormuz that separates Iran from the UAE and Oman, where a UAE oil tanker was struck by drones late on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to the current situation, potential missile threats, immediately seek a safe place in the closest secure building,&#8221; the phone alert read.<\/p>\n<p>Several minutes later, a second message said: &#8220;We reassure that the situation is currently safe. You may resume your normal activities while continuing to remain cautious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran fired more than 2,800 drones and missiles at the UAE from February 28 until the ceasefire on April 8, making it the most targeted country by Tehran&#8217;s retaliatory strikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Arab Emirates issued a mobile phone alert for a potential missile attack on Monday before cancelling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,117780,43,40,38,41,39,169156],"class_list":["post-424960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran-war","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-west-asia-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424960","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=424960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}