Four Palestinian fishermen were injured on Thursday morning when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked them and their boat off the shore of Gaza City.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that Israeli soldiers fired rubber bullets from their gunboat at four fishermen during their presence within a few nautical miles off the shore of Gaza City.
The fishermen reportedly suffered injuries during the IOF attack and received medical assistance at a local hospital.
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 shores.
