‘Houthis will receive biblical punishment,’ proclaims Israeli Defense Minister

‘Houthis will receive biblical punishment,’ proclaims Israeli Defense MinisterA burning oil tanker after U.S. airstrikes targeted the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in Hodeida, Yemen, Friday,

Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists fired three missiles at Israel within 24 hours, sparking air raid sirens across the Jewish state.

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.”

Signs of the Times

Fearing Israeli assassinations, Hamas provides safety tips to its men

Fearing Israeli assassinations, Hamas provides safety tips to its menHamas terrorists line up in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Terrorists released in previous hostage deals were especially warned, as were those who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre.

Fearing Israeli assassinations, Hamas is providing safety instructions to its operatives, Israel Hayom reported Wednesday.

The terror group’s internal security department has identified what it called a “significant escalation by the IDF” to target former Israeli prisoners — especially men exchanged for hostages in past cease-fire deals and those who took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, invasion and murder spree in Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, the report said.

The department released a video on its Al-Hares platform, set to martial music, showing a masked man walking along an empty dirt road and then sitting inside a house and using his cell phone to write or scan messages, with a red X marking those actions.

The implicit warning was that Israel can track them electronically if they use social media or make phone calls.

The video also advised operatives not to carry weapons openly, showing the man placing a handgun and several bullet clips into a black plastic bag before leaving a room.

This precaution would make them less of an obvious target to soldiers on the ground or aerial surveillance.

The actor then cleared the room of weapons, scattered a few prayer rugs and left the hideout looking abandoned — a step meant to prevent Israel from gleaning useful intelligence if the location were found.

The IDF has gained massive amounts of intelligence during the war from computers, notebooks, and even ordinary objects left behind in tunnels throughout Gaza after Hamas fighters fled Israeli incursions.

Meanwhile, in light of Israel’s recent warning that top terrorist figures living abroad are no longer safe, political leaders of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have begun taking stricter security precautions according to the London-based pan-Arab news outlet, Al-Araby al-Jadeed.

A Hamas source told the newspaper that the group had received warnings from several countries where members of its political bureau are located, and had called for tougher safeguards.

He said Turkey had recently increased security for senior Hamas leaders living there.

Al-Araby also cited an Egyptian source who said that his country had warned Israel against acting against Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Ziad al-Nahala, who currently resides in Cairo.

Gog and Magog Update

The Houthis have launched missile attacks on Israel, while Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich warns the PA against provocation and pushes for full sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. Meanwhile, Gaza City is witnessing a mass evacuation as Palestinians flee.