{"id":652853,"date":"2026-10-21T05:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652853\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:44:16","slug":"live-updates-latest-from-israel-iran-and-the-middle-east-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/652853\/","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":652854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50433,49,54,16606,51,42,86,102448,87,91,53065,21453,61,88,57,47,11982,43,157282,157283,114994,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-652853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-abbas-araghchi","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-drone","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-hezbollah-iran","tag-iran","tag-iran-israel-war","tag-irgc","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-lebanon","tag-live-updates","tag-middle-east","tag-missiles","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652853","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=652853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}