The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out for the second consecutive day a small-scale incursion into a border area in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.

Eyewitnesses told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that six armored bulldozers escorted by two Merkava tanks advanced from a military post into a border area in the east of Deir al-Balah City.

Amid sporadic gunfire the heavy machinery embarked on leveling and digging swaths of agricultural land which are located several meters away from the border fence.

Gaza farmers complain that such Israeli military incursions on the border always cause considerable damage to their crops and prevent them from working their lands.

In a separate incident Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the coast of Gaza and forced them to return ashore.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out on Tuesday morning a small-scale incursion into a border area in the central Gaza Strip.

According to local sources four armored bulldozers escorted by two Merkava tanks advanced from a military post into a border area in the east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

The heavy machinery embarked on leveling and digging swaths of agricultural land which are located several meters away from the border fence.

Gaza farmers complain that such Israeli military incursions on the border always cause considerable damage to their crops and prevent them from working their lands.

The border areas of Gaza are repeatedly exposed to Israeli military incursions and gunfire attacks which are seen as violations of the ceasefire understandings brokered between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.