{"id":619247,"date":"2026-09-17T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619247\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T20:12:13","slug":"greece-israel-hold-joint-military-exercise-in-eastern-mediterranean-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619247\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece, Israel hold joint military exercise in Eastern Mediterranean: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burak Bir<\/p>\n<p>17 September 2026\u2022Update: 17 September 2026<\/p>\n<p>Greek and Israeli naval forces held a joint exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean &#8220;a few days ago,&#8221; according to media reports Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Two Greek frigates and two Israeli missile boats took part in the drill in the Eastern Mediterranean &#8220;in operational scenarios with a high degree of difficulty,&#8221; the Kathimerini newspaper reported, describing the exercise as &#8220;highly symbolic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the drill focused on identifying and responding to threats at sea, conducting search-and-rescue operations and managing emergencies with the aim of increasing interoperability between the two naval forces and improving operational cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye has long emphasized that the Eastern Mediterranean should be an area of cooperation rather than tension. Following a meeting with Greek counterpart Giorgos Gerapetritis in June, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan highlighted the importance of avoiding steps that could harm regional stability or be directed against T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burak Bir 17 September 2026\u2022Update: 17 September 2026 Greek and Israeli naval forces held a joint exercise in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-619247","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\/619247","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=619247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}