Yemeni Armed Forces announced on Friday an operation that employed a hypersonic ballistic missile targeting an Israeli base in Negev, adding that a US reaper drone was downed over the governorate of Al-Jawf.
Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree declared that the Rocketry Unit of the Yemeni forces carried out a qualitative operation in which a hypersonic ballistic missile “Palestine 2” targeted the Israeli Nevatim Base in Negev.
“The missile reached its target thank God,” Brig. Gen. Saree added in a statement.
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He said further that the Yemeni air defenses “managed to down US MQ-9 reaper while conducting a hostile mission over the governorate of Al-Jawf.”
This take the number of downed US reapers during the Battle of the Promised Conquest and the Sacred Jihad to 12, the spokesman noted.
Brig. Gen. Saree vowed that the Yemeni Armed Forces will go ahead with operations in support of Gaza and Lebanon.
He delivered the statement during a mass rally in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis flocked to Al-Sab’een Square in Sanaa to voice support to Gaza and Lebanon.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
