Two Palestinian fishermen were injured on Thursday morning when the Israeli occupation navy opened fire at them as they were on their boat off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip.
A local committee documenting Israeli violations said that Israeli gunboats chased a small fishing boat off the shore of al-Sudaniya area in northern Gaza and showered the fishermen aboard it with rubber bullets.
The committee added that the fishermen suffered multiple injuries identifying them as Obi Jarbu and Ahmed al-Sharafi.
On Wednesday a fisherman called Ibrahim Abu Warda was also injured in his arm hand and leg when Israeli naval forces chased several fishing boats off the coast of al-Sudaniya area and fired a hail of rubber bullets at the fishermen aboard them.
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.
