{"id":288535,"date":"2024-05-31T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T06:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288535"},"modified":"2024-06-02T07:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T07:36:24","slug":"another-us-mq-9-drone-downed-by-yemen-amid-pro-palestine-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288535","title":{"rendered":"Another US MQ-9 drone downed by Yemen amid pro-Palestine campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This latest Reaper to be shot down over Yemen follows <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287979\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">another that was shot down last week<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 May 29, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Yemen has downed yet another modern drone of the US military amid its expanding pro-Palestine campaign in the midst of Israel\u2019s brutal war on Gaza.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s armed forces issued a statement on Wednesday saying its Air Defense Forces had shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone earlier in the day as it was flying in the skies of the central province of Marib.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe targeting operation was carried out with a locally-made surface-to-air missile,\u201d said the statement, adding that a video of the shooting down will be published shortly.<\/p>\n<p>It was a second time in days that the Yemenis downed an MQ-9 Reaper, a heavy and modern aircraft which is worth around $30 million.<\/p>\n<p>A total of six drones of this type have been dismantled by Yemen since last year when the Arab country launched a military campaign in support of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen started targeting Israeli-linked ships in November, a month after the regime invaded Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks\u00a0later expanded to cover ships linked to the United States and Britain after the two launched airstrikes on the Arab country to force it to halt its anti-Israeli operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemenis have insisted that maritime operations and drone and missile attacks on Israeli-occupied ports will continue until the regime completely stops its attacks on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Yemeni Armed Forces, by the grace of Allah, continue to develop their defensive capabilities to confront the American-British aggression and all hostile forces,\u201d said the statement by Yemen&#8217;s armed forces on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/05\/29\/726474\/Yemen-US-drone-downing-Marib-army-statement\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second time in as many weeks that Yemen has shot down a U.S. Reaper drone. Bringing the total of Reapers downed over Yemen since last year to SIX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":287981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288539,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288535\/revisions\/288539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}