Israeli navy target Gaza fishermen

Date

1/10/2016 3:06:16 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula)

Gaza: An Israeli naval boat Saturday opened heavy machine gun fire on Palestinian fishermen's boats while sailing within the allowed fishing zone offshore Gaza.

An Israeli naval boat opened gunfire on three Palestinian boats offshore the northwest of Gaza causing damages to the boats Palestine's News Agency (WAFA) reported.

No injuries were reported among the fishermen who apparently fled the scene for fear of being injured killed or arrested.

The current six-nautical-mile fishing zone falls drastically short of the twenty nautical miles allocated to Palestinian fishermen in the 1993 Oslo Accords.

Israeli navy and army target Palestinian fishermen and farmlands along the border almost on daily basis in a blatant breach of the Egyptian brokered truce agreement reached on August 2014 following 51 days of bloody aggression on the Gaza Strip.

QNA

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