News - Yemen: The Yemeni Armed Forces announced on Monday that they have downed an American MQ-9 surveillance drone, marking the third of its kind to be downed within a week and the tenth since Yemen entered the Battle of the Promised Conquest and the Holy Jihad in support of Gaza.

"With the help of Allah, our Air Defenses downed an American MQ-9 drone with a locally made surface-to-air missile while it was on a hostile mission in the skies over Dhamar Province (central Yemen)," Major General Yahya Saree, the Armed Forces spokesman, stated in a televised statement.

General Sare'e noted that the drone downed in Dhamar Province is the third within a week and the tenth of this type since the beginning of Gaza support operations.

He emphasized that the Yemeni forces and steadfast people will continue to support the Palestinian people with significant operations on land and at sea, asserting that "our operations will only cease when the aggression stops and the blockade on the Palestinian people in Gaza is lifted."

The Armed Forces spokesman reiterated that, "as part of the Battle of the Promised Conquest and the Holy Jihad, our forces will continue to resist American and British aggression and their hostile movements."

This incident adds to a series of downed MQ-9 drones, including previous instances on November 8, 2023, February 19, 2024, April 26, 2024, May 16, 2024, May 21, 2024, May 29, 2024, August 4, 2024, September 7, 2024, and September 10, 2024. These drones have been targeted in various provinces, including Sa'adah, Marib, and Hodeidah, reflecting the strategic effort to counter American and Israeli actions.

The MQ-9, a highly advanced drone with capabilities including surveillance, targeting, and carrying precision munitions, costs approximately $30 million. The downing of these drones represents a significant challenge to their deployment and highlights Yemen's ongoing resistance efforts in the context of regional conflicts and support for Palestine.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have been carrying out numerous strikes against the occupied Palestinian territories since the day when the Israeli regime began the war on Gaza on October 7.

Their most daring pro-Palestinian strike of the type came on Sunday, when they attacked an Israeli military site in Tel Aviv with a new hypersonic ballistic missile. 

Also on Sunday, the Leader of the Revolution Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi once again underscored Yemen’s support for Palestinians in the face of the Israeli genocide, saying the operations would continue until the regime ended the war and the siege.

At least 41,206 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed so far during the brutal Israeli onslaught, which enjoys unquestioning political, military, and intelligence support on the part of the United States.

The forces have also been targeting Israeli ships and vessels heading towards or away from the occupied territories as means of trying to force the regime into stopping the war and a siege that it has been simultaneously imposing on Gaza.

The United States has, on the other hand, been staging attacks against Yemen as means of trying to stop these operations.