India, Sept. 4 -- Israel's defence minister on Thursday threatened to inflict the biblical "10 plagues of Egypt" on Yemen's Houthi rebels, after they intensified missile strikes against Israeli targets.

"The Huthis are firing missiles at Israel again. A plague of darkness, a plague of the firstborn - we will complete all 10 plagues (sic)," Defence Minister Israel Katz wrote on X, in a post invoking the disasters described in the Book of Exodus, where the Hebrew God brought a series of calamities upon Egypt to secure the release of the enslaved Israelites.

The warning came hours after the Israeli army said a missile launched from Yemen had landed outside Israel's territory. The military had intercepted two Houthi missiles a day earlier....