{"id":653207,"date":"2026-10-21T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653207\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:28:10","slug":"israel-reportedly-conducted-practice-sortie-near-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653207\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel reportedly conducted practice sortie near Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Israel Air Force fighter jets flew &#8220;as far as the Iranian border&#8221; before turning around and returning to Israel in a practice sortie on Monday, according to an Axios report on Wednesday citing US and Israeli officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The fighter jets and accompanying refueling aircraft allegedly passed through Syrian and Iraqi airspace, following a flight path consistent with that taken during strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>While some sources told Axios that the sortie was not unusual and was intended to deter Iran, US officials said that Israel knew Iran\u2019s air defense systems would detect the jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israel reportedly notified the US of the operation in advance, describing the training exercise as a \u201cpower projection\u201d aimed at deterring Iran from attacking Israel ahead of the October 27 Knesset elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Fox News\u2019 Trey Yingst also reported that Israeli fighter jets had conducted drills during which they flew over Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Israel Air Force fighter jets flew &#8220;as far as the Iranian border&#8221; before turning around and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83601,1031,85,87,46,4716,43,33578],"class_list":["post-653207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-fighter-jets","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-israeli-air-force","tag-news","tag-will-israel-attack-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653207","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=653207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}