{"id":486249,"date":"2026-06-10T19:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/486249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:27:13","slug":"israels-defense-minister-says-war-against-iran-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/486249\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s defense minister says war against Iran \u2018far from over\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Sio<\/p>\n<p>10 June 2026\u2022Update: 10 June 2026<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the war against Iran is \u201cfar from over,\u201d warning that Israel&#8217;s military remains prepared to strike Iranian targets with \u201cgreat force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came after US President Donald Trump said Washington will continue to hit Iran hard following overnight attacks on Iranian targets, following the downing of a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campaign against Iran is far from over,\u201d Katz said at an event cited by the daily Yedioth Ahronoth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IDF (army) is prepared to strike Iran with great force,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Katz said the regional landscape is undergoing \u201cmajor changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Middle East is changing before our eyes,\u201d he said. \u201cIf Iran attacks Israel, it will suffer a severe blow just as we did several days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Iran exchanged strikes this weekend following Israeli attacks on the Lebanese capital Beirut before pulling back.<\/p>\n<p>The region has remained on edge since the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran in late February, triggering Iranian retaliation against Israel and other regional countries hosting US assets.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary ceasefire was reached on April 8, but negotiations later stalled amid disputes over its implementation and subsequent regional developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohammad Sio 10 June 2026\u2022Update: 10 June 2026 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-486249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486249","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=486249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}