The Houthi group in Yemen announced today (Wednesday) thwarting American and Israeli “intelligence activities” and arresting those it described as “spies” who were assigned multiple tasks, including trying to collect information about the whereabouts of the group’s leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.

Al-Masirah channel, the group’s mouthpiece, reported that “the security services revealed the thwarting of intelligence activities by the American Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad).”

She added, "Over the past few days, the security services were able to arrest a number of spies (who were not identified) who were recruited and recruited, and after their recruitment were assigned intelligence activities."

Intelligence activities included “monitoring and identifying sites belonging to the missile force, unmanned aerial vehicles, naval forces, and other military sites,” according to the channel.

The espionage and intelligence activities also consisted of “monitoring and collecting information about experts, laboratories, platforms, missile launching vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles targeting the Israeli enemy, and the locations and sites of the naval forces, camps, and weapons depots of the Yemeni Armed Forces (the group’s forces).”

The activities also included, according to the channel, “an attempt to monitor and collect information about the whereabouts of the leader of the revolution, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (the leader of the group), and some of the political, military and security leaders of the state and social figures opposed to the Israeli and American enemy.”

The security services warned of what it called “the danger of working for the American and Israeli intelligence services, the penalty for which amounts to death,” according to what was reported by Al-Masirah TV.

The Houthi militia had arrested former employees of foreign embassies and employees of international organizations and charged them with spying for foreign countries.