The Yemeni armed forces announced that they successfully downed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Saada Governorate and struck a ship in the Gulf of Aden, in support of the Palestinian people’s plight and in response to the American-British aggression against Yemen.
“The Air Defense Forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces were able to shoot down an American drone type MQ9 while it was carrying out hostile acts in the airspace of Saada Governorate, with a locally made surface-to-air missile,” Yemen’s military spokesman brigadier general Yahya Sare’e said in a statement on Sunday.
This aircraft is the seventh of its kind that was shot down during the Battle of the Promised Conquest and the Holy Jihad in support of Gaza, Yahya Sare’e explained.
He added, ” Within the fourth stage of escalation related to the area of maritime operations, the naval forces and the missile forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a joint military operation in which they targeted the “Groton” ship in the Gulf of Aden with a number of ballistic missiles, and the hit was accurate, thanks to Allah.”
He noted the ship was targeted because the company that owns it violated the decision to ban entry to the ports of occupied Palestine.
The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the valiant Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip for 300 days of steadfastness, heroism, and sacrifice in defense of the nation, its pride and dignity, and a victory for its sanctities, he said in the statement.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces continue to carry out their military operations in various escalatory stages, and these operations will not stop unless the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted,” the brigadier general stressed.
The operations come in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their fighters and in response to the American-British-“Israeli” aggression on our country, according to the statement .
