Mohammad Sio<\/p>\n
11 June 2026\u2022Update: 11 June 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the war against Iran is \u201cfar from over,\u201d warning that Israel’s military is prepared to strike Iranian targets with \u201cgreat force.\u201d<\/p>\n
His remarks came after US President Donald Trump said the United States will continue to hit Iran hard following overnight attacks on Iranian targets after the downing of a US Apache helicopter above the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe campaign against Iran is far from over,\u201d Katz said at an event, as cited by the Yedioth Ahronoth daily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IDF (army) is prepared to strike Iran with great force,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Katz said the regional landscape is undergoing \u201cmajor changes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\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
He boasted that Israeli forces evacuated a Christian neighborhood in southern Lebanon after alleging the presence of Hezbollah members in the area, said Channel 12.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe operate deep inside Lebanon against the Hezbollah terrorist organization, which acts on behalf of the Iranian regime, and we are dealing it severe blows,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Israeli army evacuated a Christian neighborhood in the city of Tyre during the past day and attacked Hezbollah operatives who had taken shelter there,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n
His remarks came a day after the Israeli military threatened residents of the neighborhood with evacuation, alleging Hezbollah activity in the area.<\/p>\n
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said last week that the military issued evacuation warnings for areas in Tyre following what he alleged was Hezbollah activity and violations of a ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n
Adraee warned that the military would issue further evacuation orders if Hezbollah members continued to operate from the Christian neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The neighborhood is located in the northwestern part of Tyre and contains churches, heritage buildings and historic alleyways reflecting the city’s diverse character.<\/p>\n
Israel and Iran exchanged strikes this weekend following Israeli attacks on the Lebanese capital of Beirut before pulling back.<\/p>\n
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
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 11 June 2026\u2022Update: 11 June 2026 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-486492","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\/486492","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=486492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}