A US MQ–9 Reaper drone got here down over Yemen on Wednesday, video footage and pictures circulating social media have confirmed. This marks the sixth US MQ-9 Reaper to fall into the arms of Yemen’s Ansarallah motion and Armed Forces (the Houthis).
Yemeni forces have but to substantiate whether or not the drone was downed or if it crashed, as video footage exhibits the US drone in near-perfect situation. The fourth and fifth MQ-9 Reaper drones have been shot down on seventeenth and twenty first of Could. The MQ-9 Reaper is price round $30 million.
Washington and London have, since January, been waging a brutal marketing campaign of airstrikes in opposition to Yemen in response to the pro-Palestine naval operations that Ansarallah and the Yemeni military started in November final yr.
The beginning of the US-led warfare in opposition to Yemen prompted Yemeni forces to start concentrating on US and British vessels alongside these linked to or sure for Israel.
The western marketing campaign has finished nothing to discourage the Yemenis. US and EU maritime task forces have did not progress in stopping assaults on ships within the Purple Sea, Arab Sea, Indian Ocean, and elsewhere, which have resulted in a pressure on each the Israeli economic system and worldwide delivery as a complete.
The Yemeni Armed Forces introduced in an announcement on Wednesday that it focused six ships in three completely different seas, utilizing each missiles and drones. Three ships have been struck within the Purple Sea, one other two US ships have been hit within the Arabian Sea, whereas one oil tanker was hit within the Mediterranean.
Yemen mentioned at first of Could that its operations would increase into the Mediterranean Sea, following its announcement in March that the Indian Ocean could be included in its scope of assaults.
BREAKING | The downing of yet one more US MQ-9 drone by the Yemeni Armed Forces in Marib. pic.twitter.com/oNGQlzr3OS
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It has repeatedly vowed that it’ll proceed its operations till the warfare in Gaza is dropped at an finish and till the siege is lifted and ample quantities of help are introduced in to the Palestinians.
“We consider that the famine at the moment occurring in Gaza is ample to impress the sentiments of the complete world, and subsequently we’re working day and night time to develop and increase our operations to raise this injustice and cease these crimes in opposition to the folks of Gaza,” a Yemeni official told Mondoweiss on Could 26.
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