🇾🇪 Iranian and regional media outlets, including Iran’s Fars News Agency, are reporting the downing of a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen’s Marib province, the key oil and gas region located in north-central Yemen today.
The claim and the footage has not yet been confirmed by U.S. Central Command or by Yemen’s Ansarallah (Houthis). The Houthis have a documented history of targeting the $30 million General Atomics aircraft, shooting down dozens of MQ-9 Reapers during recent U.S. campaigns, increasingly by using locally manufactured surface-to-air missiles. The U.S. has previously acknowledged some losses while declining to confirm others.
If you’re a UK journalist and you have not yet spoken up for Palestinian media workers in Gaza who have been targeted and killed by Israeli Forces - whilst relying on their testimony, contacts, video footage and sound as the bedrock of your own reporting - shame on you.