Israeli naval forces opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza shores on Friday evening.

Local sources affirmed that the Israeli war boats fired heavy machineguns at Palestinian boats sailing off Gaza southern shores.

Palestinian fishermen were forced to leave the sea following the 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 and 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.

GAZA (PIC)– Israeli navy gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats while working off the coast of Gaza at dawn Wednesday.

Palestinian sources told Quds Press that a number of Israeli gunboats opened fire at the Palestinian fishing boats off the northern Gaza Strip coast.

They said that the fishermen were forced to return to shore due to the intensive firing without completing their work. No casualties were reported among the fishermen.

The gunfire attack is the latest in a series of breaches of the ceasefire agreement signed in Cairo last August between the Palestinian resistance and Israel.

GAZA (PIC)– Israeli navy gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Khan Younis to the south of Gaza Strip on Monday morning.

Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the gunboats targeted Palestinian fishing boats at sea but no casualties or damage were reported.

Fishermen in Gaza are frequently targeted by the Israeli navy forces that fire at them and at their fishing boats. Many of them were injured their boats damaged or their tools and boats confiscated.