Israeli naval forces on Monday morning attacked Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the coast of Gaza City injuring one of them and sinking fishing equipment.
According to the fishermen committees Israeli forces aboard gunboats opened fire and sprayed spouts of water from a canon at two fishing boats belonging to the family of Abu Riyalla.
The fishermen were working on their boats within six nautical miles from the shore of Gaza City when the forces attacked them.
A teenage fisherman called Abdullah Abu Riyallah was injured and lost consciousness during the water cannon attack. He was rushed to hospital for medical assistance.
The attack also led one boat to capsize and two generators as well as fishing equipment to sink down into the water.
Since the beginning of the current year dozens of Palestinian fishermen were either injured or arrested by the Israeli occupation navy.
Israeli 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 of 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 shore.
