The Israeli occupation navy attacked on Saturday morning Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the northern coast of the beleaguered Gaza Strip.

According to local sources Israeli gunboats fired machine guns at fishing boats multiple times during their presence within a few nautical miles off the shores of Beit Lahia City in northern Gaza.

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.

Such Israeli attacks in Gaza’s territorial waters curtail fishermen’s ability to fish and make a living to support their families.

Israel’s decades of control over Gaza’s territorial waters have had an adverse impact on the lives and livelihoods of fishermen their families and others in the fishing sector and on the economy as a whole.

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked on Tuesday morning Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip and forced them to return ashore.

According to local sources Israeli gunboats opened machinegun fire at several fishing boats showered them with tear gas canisters and skunk water and chased them during their presence within a few nautical miles off the shores of different areas in northern Gaza.

No one was reportedly hurt in the IOF attack.

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 forces (IOF) attacked on Monday afternoon Palestinian fishermen and their boats off the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip and forced them to return ashore.

A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that Israeli gunboats fired machine guns and tear gas canisters at fishing boats during their presence within a few nautical miles off the shores of different areas in northern Gaza.

Luckily no one was hurt in the IOF attack.

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.