{"id":499481,"date":"2026-03-02T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:23:10","slug":"israel-iran-war-day-3-drones-that-targeted-u-k-bases-in-cyprus-likely-fired-by-hezbollah-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499481\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Iran War Day 3 | Drones That Targeted U.K. Bases in Cyprus Likely Fired by Hezbollah, Source Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Here are the latest updates from the third day of Israel and the United States&#8217;s war against Iran and Hezbollah:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The IDF said it has mobilized around 110,000 reservists and prepared for &#8220;developments across multiple fronts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.S. \u200cDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to give a timeframe for the Iran war, adding that U.S. President Donald Trump will decide the duration of the war.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Three siblings \u2013 Sarah Bitton, 13, Avigail Bitton, 15 and Yaakov Bitton, 16 \u2013 were identified as the last three victims of Iran&#8217;s missile strike in Beit Shemesh.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Nineteen were wounded by an Iranian missile hit in southern Israel&#8217;s Be&#8217;er Sheva, medics said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.S. CENTCOM announced that four U.S. service members have been killed in action. U.S. General \u200cDan Caine said the United States expects additional casualties during the war.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that Israeli settlers killed two Palestinian men in a shooting in the West Bank on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 The German Defense Ministry said more than 500 German troops are stationed in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said Greece is ready to defend Cyprus by &#8220;any possible means,'&#8221; with the ministry saying Athens sent two frigates and two fighter jets to Cyprus following Iranian drone attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are the latest updates from the third day of Israel and the United States&#8217;s war against Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[226900,180119,23,12,5618,211919,220428,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,7855],"class_list":{"0":"post-499481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-2026-israel-iran-war","9":"tag-ali-khamenei","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-gaza","13":"tag-iran-u-s","14":"tag-israel-iran","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-west-bank"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}