{"id":522240,"date":"2026-07-02T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/522240\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:33:08","slug":"katz-idf-chief-mark-1000-days-since-oct-7-with-stark-iran-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/522240\/","title":{"rendered":"Katz, IDF chief mark 1,000 days since Oct. 7 with stark Iran warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir marked 1,000 days since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/the-october-7-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 7<\/a> at Thursday\u2019s General Staff situational assessment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today marks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-901174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1,000 days<\/a> since the outbreak of the longest war in our history, a war that began with a grave failure and the worst tragedy in the history of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Iran continues to be the primary focus of our preparedness. We are currently in an interim period across all theaters of operation. All arenas remain active at varying levels of intensity, and each is undergoing defining developments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/israel-katz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel Katz<\/a> said that Israel had \u201cchanged the face of the Middle East\u201d after October 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We emerged from the greatest catastrophe we have ever known into Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas. We paid a heavy price and lost the best of our sons and daughters, but from that pain emerged a more united people and a stronger, more determined state,&#8221; Katz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cWe eliminated Iran&#8217;s leader Khamenei and most of the Iranian leadership, severely damaged its strategic capabilities, and the IDF must be prepared to carry out an independent Israeli strike on Iran whenever necessary in order to remove any threat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He added that Israel will &#8220;never return to a reality in which our enemies entrench themselves along our borders and threaten our communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We eliminated the entire Hamas leadership involved in the October 7 massacre, killed Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah&#8217;s leadership, destroyed Assad&#8217;s army in Syria, decapitated most of the Houthi leadership in Yemen, and dealt severe blows to every terrorist arm that sought to surround Israel with a ring of fire,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thousand days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/the-october-7-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">October 7<\/a>, our enemies understand very well that their attempt to destroy the State of Israel has failed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir marked 1,000 days since October 7 at Thursday\u2019s General Staff situational assessment.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2464,60,51,42,1031,2723,61,43,58,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-522240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-eyal-zamir","tag-gaza-war","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-idf","tag-israel-katz","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-news","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522240","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=522240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}