In two separate incidents the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday morning opened fire at swaths of cultivated land and fishing boats in the east and west of the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to local sources the IOF opened machinegun fire at swaths of agricultural land in the east of al-Fakhari town in the east of Khan Yunis south of Gaza.
Luckily no one was hurt in the shooting attack.
Meanwhile Israeli gunboats also launched gunfire attacks on fishermen and their boats off the shores of different areas of Gaza. No one was injured.
Local sources said the gunboats attacked fishermen off the shores of as-Sudaniya and al-Waha rea in the northwest of Gaza as well as off the coast of Gaza City and central Gaza.
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 shore.
