Sanaa’s internal operations come amid reports that Israel and its Gulf partners are preparing to reignite attacks on Yemen
he Yemeni Interior Ministry announced on 8 November that its security forces dismantled a spy network tied to US, Israeli, and Saudi intelligence agencies following a “special security operation.”
A ministry spokesman said the operation, codenamed “Their schemes will fail,” led to the arrest of members of a network linked to a joint operations room shared by the CIA, Mossad, and Saudi intelligence service headquartered inside the Gulf monarchy.
The ministry said the achievement came after “intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring operations” that exposed “the enemy’s plans and the methods of the traitorous operatives.”
The Yemeni Ministry of Interior announced that a multi-phase security operation had dismantled a spy network linked to a joint intelligence operations room, involving the #US CIA, the Israeli Mossad, and Saudi intelligence.
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Officials added that the joint operations room directed sabotage and espionage activities targeting Yemen by establishing multiple small, independent cells all connected to a central command based in Saudi Arabia.
According to the statement, the operations room provided these cells with advanced surveillance and espionage equipment and trained their operatives in intelligence gathering, report writing, and concealment methods.
The cells reportedly monitored Yemen’s infrastructure, attempted to locate military and security facilities, and gathered information on weapons production, missile and drone launch sites, and the movements of key civilian, military, and security leaders.
Sanaa said some of the arrested operatives provided coordinates and data to the “enemy” that were later used to target public-service facilities, leading to civilian casualties and damaging Yemen’s economy and infrastructure.
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The statement added that the network’s activities intensified alongside the ongoing aggression against Yemen and sought to “undermine military operations and public and official positions supporting Gaza and the Palestinian cause.”
Last month, officials in Sanaa confirmed to Reuters that dozens of UN staffers will face trial over their suspected links to an Israeli attack in August in Sanaa that killed Prime Minister Ahmad Ghalib al-Rahwi and several government ministers.
Ansarallah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, in a speech this week, said Yemen has grown stronger after two years of war with Israel and warned of an inevitable new confrontation, vowing continued resistance as Tel Aviv considers a restart to the war.
