The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked on Saturday morning Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the shores of the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to the fishermen syndicate Israeli gunboats fired machine guns and water cannons at fishing boats and tried to sink them during their presence within three nautical miles off the shores of Gaza City and Rafah area.
No one was reportedly hurt in the attack which forced the fishermen to return ashore.
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.
Such Israeli attacks in Gaza’s territorial waters curtail fishermen’s ability to fish and make a living to support their families.
Israel’s decades of control over Gaza’s territorial waters have had an adverse impact on the lives and livelihoods of fishermen their families and others in the fishing sector and on the economy as a whole.
