The latest attacks come just days after Israeli airstrikes killed much of the Houthi leadership, striking a gathering of senior officials.
By IDF Club
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that the Houthis would face a severe military response — likening it to the Biblical plagues of Passover — after the Iranian-backed Yemeni terror group fired three missiles at Israel within 24 hours.
“The Houthis are firing missiles at Israel again,” Katz wrote Thursday morning on X.
He cautioned that the group would be punished by “a plague of darkness, a plague of [death of] the firstborn,” adding that Israel “will complete all ten plagues” in its retaliation against the terror group.
On Wednesday morning, sirens sounded across central Israel after a missile was fired from Yemen. The projectile was intercepted, and no injuries were reported.
Hours later on the same day, additional sirens rang out in the Jerusalem and Dead Sea areas due to another missile launch. That missile was also intercepted, but an initial IDF probe revealed it carried cluster munitions.
Banned under international law, cluster munitions scatter bomblets over wide areas. Used frequently by Iran to target civilian areas in Israel during the June war, cluster munitions pose a risk of massive destruction across multiple sites.
On Thursday morning — less than 24 hours after the launch that triggered sirens across central Israel — another launch was detected from Yemen.
That missile, however, disintegrated over the Saudi desert and never reached Israeli airspace.
The latest attacks come just days after Israeli airstrikes killed much of the Houthi leadership, striking a gathering of senior officials. Those reported killed included the Houthis’ prime minister, foreign minister, energy minister, and other top figures.
Following that strike, Katz noted that surviving leaders were fleeing the rebel-held capital.
“The remaining Houthi leadership is escaping Sanaa,” Katz posted.
“Like all leaders of extremist Islamist terror, they look after themselves and abandon the residents.”
