Yemen launches missile attack on Israeli airbase

Yemen's Armed Forces has launched a missile attack on the Israeli airbase Nevatim in the southern part of the occupied territories in support of Palestinians and Lebanese people who are subjected to an Israeli aggression.

On Friday, the spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced that the missile force of the Yemeni army “carried out a qualitative military operation targeting the Nevatim airbase” in the Negev with the “Palestine-2” hypersonic ballistic missile.

“The missile reached its target," he added.

Saree also acknowledged earlier media reports that the country’s air defenses downed the “MQ-9” US aircraft in al-Jawf in the early hours of Friday.

Earlier in the day, 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 what those off-camera described as an area of al-Jawf province. The military said it was investigating the incident, declining to elaborate further.

This brings to 12 the number of such US aircraft downed by the Yemeni forces since the start of Yemen’s pro-Gaza operations last year.

Yahya Saree made the remarks in a statement during protests held in the capital Sana’a in solidarity with the Gazans and the Lebanese people.

On an almost a weekly basis, Yemenis have staged mass protests in various Yemeni provinces to condemn the Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon, and to reiterate their support for their country’s retaliatory operations.

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Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Yemeni forces have carried out scores of operations in support of the war-hit Gazans, striking targets throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, in addition to targeting Israeli ships or vessels heading towards ports in the occupied territories.

The US and the UK have been carrying out numerous attacks against Yemen as means of trying to pressure the country into stopping the series of operations that it has been conducting in support of Gazans.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 43,400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 102,000 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

Israel has also been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Since late September, the regime has escalated its strikes on Lebanon, killing hundreds of people.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.

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