Defence minister’s menace follows report of latest missile launch from Yemen.
Revealed On 4 Sep 2025
Israel’s defence minister has promised to inflict the ten biblical plagues of Egypt on Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
The menace was issued by Israel Katz on social media on Thursday amid reviews that the Iran-backed Houthis have stepped up their missile assaults in opposition to Israel. The Yemeni insurgent power has resumed assaults in retaliation for final week’s assassination of Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi and several other senior officers.
“The Houthis are firing missiles at Israel once more. A plague of darkness, a plague of the firstborn – we’ll full all 10 plagues,” Katz wrote in Hebrew on X, as tensions proceed to escalate between his nation and the Yemeni group.
Earlier on Thursday, the Israeli military stated a missile fired from Yemen had struck outdoors Israeli territory. The day prior to this, the army had reported it intercepted two Houthi missiles.
The Yemeni group on Monday claimed accountability for a missile assault within the Purple Sea that hit the Israeli-owned tanker Scarlet Ray.
Katz’s menace refers back to the 10 disasters that the Bible’s Guide of Exodus says have been inflicted on Egypt by the Hebrew God to persuade the pharaoh to free the enslaved Israelites.
The Houthis have launched quite a few drone and missile assaults in opposition to Israel, saying the launches are in help of the Palestinians, because the Gaza struggle erupted in October 2023.
The group, which controls huge areas of Yemen, additionally ran a marketing campaign focusing on worldwide delivery within the Purple Sea, a route important for world commerce. That noticed america launch a concerted sequence of assaults on the Houthi-occupied elements of Yemen earlier this 12 months.
In Could, Oman brokered a ceasefire between the US and Houthis, main Washington to halt its every day bombing marketing campaign.
Nevertheless, the group stated the settlement doesn’t cowl operations in opposition to Israel, and has continued to launch assaults.
In flip, Israel has carried out a number of rounds of strikes in Yemen, focusing on Houthi-held ports in addition to the rebel-held capital, Sanaa.
Every week in the past, an Israeli air strike killed al-Rahawi, 9 of his ministers, and two different Houthi representatives.
