{"id":18421,"date":"2026-07-26T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/israel-cabinet-moves-meeting-underground-fears-iran-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:31:22","slug":"israel-cabinet-moves-meeting-underground-fears-iran-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/israel-cabinet-moves-meeting-underground-fears-iran-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Cabinet Moves Meeting to Underground Shelter Amid Fears of Iranian Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli sources have reported that the country&#8217;s cabinet meeting was suddenly relocated to a secure underground shelter, where it was held. According to these sources, the move was prompted by concerns over possible attacks by Iran.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Jazeera, this decision was made amid escalating tensions between Israel, Iran, and Lebanon, with Israeli officials tightening security measures.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli radio also reported that during today&#8217;s cabinet meeting, the state of emergency in Israeli-controlled areas is expected to be extended until August 11, in light of recent developments.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that meetings of senior Israeli officials have been held in underground locations; during previous periods of increased security tensions, cabinet sessions have been conducted in shelters or protected facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising tensions with Iran, Israel&#8217;s cabinet relocated its meeting to an underground shelter, extending the state of emergency until August 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}