{"id":635544,"date":"2026-10-03T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635544\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:48:09","slug":"live-updates-latest-from-israel-iran-and-the-middle-east-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/635544\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel and the US launched Operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury on February 28, saying they aimed to create conditions for regime change in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli strike on a bunker in Tehran. Iran\u2019s defense minister and several IRGC generals were also killed in what became the IAF\u2019s largest-ever aerial operation.<\/p>\n<p>Iran retaliated with missile attacks across the Middle East, targeting Gulf states and US military bases in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Since February 28, ballistic missile attacks on Israel have killed 39 IDF soldiers and 23 civilians, while injuring at least 7,693 others. CENTCOM said 18 US soldiers were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire was announced on April 7 and took effect the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel and the US launched Operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury on February 28, saying they aimed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,54,50,83420,51,86,85,87,92,53065,46,88,57,47,43,78,4713,1078,2893],"class_list":["post-635544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-gulf-states","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-irgc","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-live-updates","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-uae","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635544","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=635544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}