According to the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Muhammad Majid Bakr, a 23-year-old resident from the al-Shati refugee camp, was shot by Israeli naval forces at around 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning while fishing off the coast of Gaza with his brother Umran Majid Bakr.
Umran told al-Mezan that Bakr had been shot in the chest, and was still bleeding when Israeli naval forces ships surrounded their fishing boat and detained Bakr.
Both an Israeli army spokesperson and a spokesperson for the Barzilai hospital in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, where Bakr was reportedly taken for treatment, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier on Monday, Ma’an reported that at least six Palestinian fishermen had been detained off the coast of Gaza between Sunday and Monday, including three from al-Shati, although Muhammad Majid Bakr had not been identified as being among them.
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15 May 2017 - 13:57
News ID: 829933
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A Palestinian fisherman who was shot and injured by Israeli forces off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip earlier on Monday succumbed to his wounds while hospitalized in Israel, a local NGO reported.
