Egypt’s naval forces at dawn Wednesday arrested two Palestinian fishermen off southern Gaza’s shore.
Head of the Palestinian Fishermen Syndicate Nizar Ayyash told Quds Press that the Egyptian navy earlier in the day detained Sami and Ibrahim Edwan while they were fishing near the sea border between Gaza and Egypt and confiscated their boats.
Palestinian fishermen usually prefer to work near the Egyptian waters away from the attacks of Israeli gunboats.
Israel in 2006 imposed a land and sea blockade on the nearly two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Fishermen are only allowed to sail within an area of 6 nautical miles.
