Almotamar.net - Security men in the Tourist City in the capital Sana'a foiled on Wednesday an attempted assassination against the Jewish rabbi Yahya Yusuf intended to be committed by three of al-Houthi terrorist elements.

A source has told Almotamar.net that the three accused persons, who are followers of the Houthi elements, entered the Tourist City under pretext of tourism on Wednesday but they remained touring the city in a way that aroused suspicion of security men who have asked them and found with them three handguns.

In interrogation statements there persons confessed that they were intending to assassinate the Jewish rabbi Yahya Yusuf inside the Tourist City.

The sauce said that security apparatus of the Tourist city have also retained the car which the three elements were using along with arrest of the three elements in preparation for sending them and the seized evidence to trial, affirming the completion of investigations.

He pointed out that the three persons are from Mareb, Al-jawf and Sana'a provinces and they are still detained at the Tourist City.

It should be pointed out that the rabbi Yusuf , leader of the 65-member of the Jewish group in Yemen had earlier strongly criticized the Houthis on satellite channels and accused them of displacing the Jewish sect from Saada and Amran in addition to stealing all their possessions, even their Holy Book.

The Houthi elements had last year told the sons of the Jewish sect to leave their villages in Saada, especially in the area of Al-Salem after threats of killing by the Houthi rebels and they stole their possessions and their religious books.