Yemen’s Ministry of Interior released on Wednesday confessions from several members of the spy network, saying they were committing “an act of treason” against their own country.

In a statement, the ministry said that the arrested spies were operating under a Saudi-based joint intelligence room affiliated with Israel’s Mossad, as well as American and Saudi intelligence services.

The spies were involved in surveillance activities, while gathering sensitive information and providing the coordinates of several vital, security, and military installations to the enemy’s joint intelligence room during the Yemeni campaign in solidarity with Gaza, it added.

The enemy carried out deadly strikes on some of the Yemeni installations, whose coordinates had been provided by members of the spying network.

Also in its statement, the ministry said that the officers operating in the enemy’s joint intelligence room used mercenaries to recruit military personnel capable of obtaining the required information.

Some of those recruited, it noted, were summoned to the Saudi capital of Riyadh to meet with Saudi and foreign intelligence officers and were provided with tools to facilitate their espionage activities.

It further explained that the spies employed several methods to indirectly gather information from public events and cultivate relationships with government employees or their relatives.

Their aim, it said, was to collect as much information as possible about Yemen’s military capabilities, the movements of its military and civilian leaders, and details of meetings and gatherings.