Israeli gunboats attacked Palestinian fishing boats off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

The Israeli navy boats opened fire at Palestinian fishermen as they were sailing off the shores of Al Waha and Sudaniyah to the north of the Gaza Strip according to the PIC correspondent.

He added that the Israeli gunboats chased and opened water cannons at Palestinian fishermen’s boats which were four miles away from the shore forcing them to return ashore.

The Israeli navy harasses Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip on daily basis and sometimes injure or even kill them or steals their equipment and boats according to human rights sources.

Israeli gunboats attacked Palestinian fishing boats off the shore of Khan Yunis south of Gaza Strip on Saturday.

“Although the Palestinian fishermen’s boats were only three miles away from the shore the Israeli navy attacked them shot at them and forced them to return ashore” Quds Press reported.

The Israeli navy harasses Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip on daily basis and sometimes injure or even kill them or steals their equipment and boats according to human rights sources.

KHAN YOUNIS (PIC)– Israeli navy boats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Khan Younis and Rafah south of the Gaza Strip on Sunday night.

The head of the fishermen syndicate in Khan Younis Fuad Al-Amori said that the gunboats opened intensive fire at the fishermen to force them to retreat to a closer area to the beach.

He said that the continued harassment and shooting by those gunboats had complicated the fishing process in the Strip and forced hundreds of fishermen to leave their work and look for other jobs for sustenance.

Meanwhile in the West Bank the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a Palestinian man in Jenin refugee camp during an incursion after searching his home.

Eyewitnesses noted that the IOF soldiers used dogs in storming and searching the house which occurred before dawn Monday.

An intelligence officer accompanying the IOF patrol questioned all inhabitants of the house before taking away Mohammed Abu Zeina.