The Israeli occupation army attacked on Sunday morning Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) quoted an official source from the fishermen syndicate as saying that Israeli gunboats fired machine guns at fishing boats during their presence within a few nautical miles off the shore of as-Sudaniya area.

No one was reportedly hurt in the attack which forced the fishermen to return ashore.

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.

The Israeli occupation army at dawn Wednesday attacked Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the southern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to local sources Israeli gunboats fired machine guns and tear gas canisters at fishing boats during their presence within three nautical miles off the shore of Rafah area in southern Gaza.

The naval forces also chased the fishing boats while firing water cannons at them and forced them to return ashore.

Last night Israeli naval soldiers kidnaped two Gazan fishermen off the shore of Rafah and confiscated their boat.

The Israeli occupation army on Monday morning attacked Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to local sources Israeli gunboats fired machine guns and tear gas canisters at fishing boats during their presence within a few nautical miles off the shore of as-Sudaniya area in the north of Gaza City.

No one was reportedly hurt in the attack which forced the fishing boats to return ashore.

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.