{"id":287730,"date":"2024-05-18T05:12:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T05:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287730"},"modified":"2024-05-20T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T07:11:41","slug":"yemen-downs-advanced-30-million-us-spy-drone-over-marib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287730","title":{"rendered":"Yemen downs advanced $30 million US spy drone over Ma\u2019rib"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 May 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Armed Reaper drone.<\/p><\/div>\n

Yemen\u2019s army says it has shot down an American spy drone by \u201ca locally-made missile\u201d in the province of Ma\u2019rib, amid escalating tensions in the region over Israel\u2019s US-backed genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a statement issued on Friday and carried by Yemen\u00a0news agency SABA, Yemen\u2019s armed forces announced that the country\u2019s air defenses downed the MQ-9 drone using a surface-to-air missile on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, the drone \u201cwas carrying out hostile acts in the airspace of Ma\u2019rib.\u201d\u00a0The statement stressed that the country\u2019s armed forces are fully prepared to thwart all the enemies\u2019 plots.<\/p>\n

The Yemeni military said it was the fourth aircraft,\u00a0estimated to be worth\u00a0$30 million, downed as part of the country\u2019s pro-Palestine operations.<\/p>\n

In solidarity with the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, the Yemeni armed forces have targeted ships in the Red Sea with owners linked to Israel or those going to and from ports in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n

In December last year, the United States formed a coalition to stop Yemen\u2019s anti-Israel attacks.<\/p>\n

The US and the UK have been carrying out numerous attacks against Yemen as a means of trying to pressure the country into stopping a series of operations that it has been conducting in support of Gazans.<\/p>\n

Yemen has been conducting operations against the British and American warships that have been dispatched to the Red Sea to confront the Yemeni strikes.<\/p>\n

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at least 35,303\u00a0Palestinians and injured tens of thousands more.<\/p>\n

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Houthis Down $30Mn MQ-9 Reaper Drone, Target US Destroyer Destiny In Red Sea | Iran Warns \u201cEU Trio\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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