The Israeli occupation navy on Sunday morning kidnapped two fishermen and confiscated their boat off the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that Israeli gunboats encircled a small fishing boat off the shore of Beit Lahia rounded up two fishermen aboard it and seized their boat.
He affirmed that the detained fishermen were working aboard their boat within the permitted fishing area in the northern waters of Gaza.
Last Friday the Israeli occupation navy kidnapped four Palestinian fishermen in the northern waters of Gaza.
Israeli 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 of 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.
