AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Israeli occupation navy on Monday opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the coast of Gaza City, with no reported casualties.
According to local sources, Israeli gunboats opened fire at several fishing boats during their presence within only three nautical miles of the shores of as-Sudaniya area, west of Gaza City.
No one was reportedly hurt in the shooting attack, which forced the fishermen to return ashore.
Israeli naval forces and their gunboats are around Gaza fishermen almost every day, harassing them, shooting at them, damaging their boats, and making arrests. Sometimes fishermen are injured or killed during gunfire attacks.
Under the 1993 Oslo accords, Palestinian fishermen are permitted to fish up to 20 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, but since then Israel has kept reducing the fishing area gradually to a limit between six to three nautical miles as part of its blockade on Gaza.
Fishermen and human rights groups also say that since the 2008-09 war in Gaza, the Israeli army has been regularly enforcing a limit even closer to the shore.
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5 April 2021 - 09:54
News ID: 1128901
The Israeli occupation navy on Monday opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the coast of Gaza City, with no reported casualties.
