{"id":649976,"date":"2026-10-18T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T08:06:08","slug":"live-updates-latest-from-israel-iran-and-the-middle-east-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/649976\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">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 data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">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 data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Iran retaliated with missile attacks across the Middle East, targeting Gulf states and US military bases in the region.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">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 data-mce-style=\"color: #000000; font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: __Open_Sans_2fad4c, __Open_Sans_Fallback_2fad4c, &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">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":649977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[292129,49,54,9093,128748,42,8954,46,61,87806,57,1486,41593,43,157282,157283,78,114994,40,38,41,39,79,1032,25360],"class_list":["post-649976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2024-iran-israel-conflict","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza-israel","tag-gazan-board-of-peace","tag-headlines","tag-houthis","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-lebanon-israel-war","tag-live-updates","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-middle-israel","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-west-bank-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649976","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=649976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}