The Israeli occupation army on Monday evening released two Palestinian fishermen after its navy forces kidnapped them earlier on the same day from their boat off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources said that the fishermen Amr and Mohamed al-Sultan arrived in Gaza through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing in northern Gaza after the Israeli navy detained them for several hours.
They added that the Israeli navy confiscated their fishing gear and refused to give it back to them.
Palestinian fishermen are deprived of working freely off the coast of Gaza especially in its northern waters and exposed to frequent assaults and arrests by the Israeli navy.
