{"id":482462,"date":"2026-06-08T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482462\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:36:08","slug":"katz-idf-will-continue-to-operate-in-beirut-if-hezbollah-attacks-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/482462\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz: IDF will continue to operate in Beirut if Hezbollah attacks Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel will continue to attack the Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh<\/a> if Hezbollah continues to attack Israel’s northern region, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

“We reject Iran’s threats outright,” Katz added. “Any attempt by Iran to use ties with Lebanon to attack Israel<\/a> will be met with great force<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday, reportedly proposed<\/a> to the Security Cabinet that Israel should strike 20-30 buildings in Beirut’s Dahiyeh for every Iranian missile launched towards Israel.<\/p>\n

Dahiyeh is a suburb south of Beirut where Hezbollah has a strong presence. The IDF struck Dahiyeh on Sunday, which Iran used as a trigger to begin launching waves of missile launches towards Israel on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The apparent logic behind Smotrich’s plan is that striking Beirut in this manner would affect Iran’s calculations regarding the regime’s connection to Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Additionally, destroying 1,000 to 2,000 buildings in Dahiyeh would strengthen security and create a deterrent for years to come within Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Amichai Stein contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel will continue to attack the Beirut neighborhood of Dahiyeh if Hezbollah continues to attack Israel’s northern region,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17466,86,85,87,46,2723,43],"class_list":["post-482462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-defense-ministry","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israel-katz","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482462","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=482462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}