Yemeni air defense units have intercepted and shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was violating the country’s airspace in the northern province of al-Jawf.

The drone was shot down while it was carrying out a reconnaissance drone operation above the area early on Friday, Yemeni media outlets reported. 

The US military acknowledged the videos circulating online showing what appeared to be a flaming aircraft dropping out of the sky, and a field of burning debris in an area of Yemen’s al-Jawf province.

The military said it was investigating the incident, declining to elaborate further.

According to the Yemeni media, this was the 12th MQ-9 Reaper shot down by the country’s forces. 

Back on September 30, Spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Yemeni forces had downed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the northwestern province of Sa’ada.

Saree said in a televised statement at the time that the unmanned aerial vehicle was targeted with a locally-made surface-to-air missile.

Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 last year, killing at least 43,469 Palestinians to date. 

The Yemeni Armed Forces have said that they won’t stop their attacks until Israeli ground and aerial attacks in Gaza end.

Israel launched its brutal campaign of genocide in Gaza after Palestinian resistance groups conducted a surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories.

The regime has had in place a near-total siege on the coastal territory, which has reduced to a trickle the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory.

Leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has said it is “a great honor and blessing to be confronting America directly.”

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