Yemen Shoots Down Advanced US Drone Spying for ‘Israel’

By Staff, Agencies

The Yemeni Armed Forces announced shooting down an advanced American drone as the aircraft was performing an operation in support of the ‘Israeli’ regime.

The MQ-9 Reaper drone was brought down using a surface-to-air missile as the aircraft was flying in the airspace over Yemen's territorial waters, the Armed Forces said in a statement on Wednesday.

The aircraft was struck while carrying out a "hostile espionage" operation within the framework of the United States' military support for the ‘Israeli’ regime, the statement added.

"Yemen's Armed Forces lay emphasis on their legitimate right to defend the country and confront all hostile threats," said the forces' spokesman Brigadier General Yehya Saree.

"These hostile maneuvers do not serve to prevent the Yemeni Armed Forces from conducting military operations against the Zionist regime [of ‘Israel’] and in support of the Palestinian nation," he added.

The Yemeni Army has recently conducted several military operations against ‘Israeli’ targets in response to the occupying regime's October 7-present war against the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, which has so far left more than 10,500 Palestinian martyrs.

On Tuesday, the country's Armed Forces said they had launched a large-scale drone strike against "sensitive" targets in the occupied territories in a show of support for Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip.

On October 31st too, the forces launched large-scale military strikes against ‘Israeli’ targets using a "large batch of ballistic and winged missiles, and a large number of drones."

Yemen's military has vowed to keep up the strikes as long as the occupying regime presses on with its war against Gaza.