Israeli gunboats chased and fired at Palestinian fishermen off the Rafah shore south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening.

According to local sources the Israeli navy boats chased the Palestinian fishermen’s boats and opened fire at them while working at sea.

The Israeli navy harasses Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza shores on daily basis firing at them arresting them and confiscating their boats and their equipment.

It has arrested about 41 Palestinian fishermen and confiscated ten boats since the beginning of 2022.

Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian fishing boats off the northern Gaza Strip Beit Lahia town while sailing only three nautical miles off the coast on Monday morning.

No casualties were reported in the attack.

Meanwhile Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced in northern Gaza Strip and fired at farmers while tending to their lands. No casualties were suffered.

A similar attack took place in southern Gaza where IOF soldiers opened fire at citizens’ land to the east of Khan Younis city.

GAZA (PIC)– Israeli navy gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza city on Wednesday morning.

Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the Israeli gunboats fired at the fishing boats and in the air to scare the fishermen who were trying to fish within the three nautical miles radius fixed by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Israel has been blocking Gaza sea route with the outside world since its occupation of the coastal enclave in 1967with only a few boats succeeding in entering the Strip.

The Oslo accords allowed fishermen to work within the range of 20 nautical miles that was reduced by the IOA to 8 miles after the Aqsa intifada then to 3 miles after it tightened its blockade on the Strip six years ago.

GAZA (PIC)– Israeli navy gunboats opened heavy machine gunfire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza at dawn Thursday.

A field observer told the Quds Press that the Israeli gunboats targeted Palestinian fishing boats and fired flare bombs but no casualties were reported.

Israeli navy routinely targets Palestinian fishermen in line with its siege on the Gaza Strip and in violation of the calm agreement concluded with Palestinian resistance factions under Egyptian patronage last November.

Around 3500 Palestinian fishermen work on more than a thousand fishing boats as their sole source of living for their families that number around 50000 individuals.

GAZA (PIC)– Israeli navy vessels opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza Strip on Friday night but no casualties were reported.

Security sources said that the gunboats repeatedly targeted fishing boats off the Sudaniya area north of Gaza Strip forcing fishermen to return to the shore fearing for their lives.

Gaza fishermen are systematically attacked by Israeli gunboats deployed off the coast of the Strip.

Meanwhile Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said its fighters engaged an Israeli army unit east of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip on Friday evening.

It added that the fighters fired a mortar shell at the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) noting that Israeli helicopter gunships raided the scene of the attack.

The National Resistance Brigades the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine also declared responsibility for firing two mortar rounds at an IOF position on Friday night.

Both armed wings said the attacks were in response to Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people and aggression on Gaza.