Israeli occupation navy on Friday morning opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishermen off the northern shores of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli gunboats opened fire at and chased fishermen in the northern waters of Gaza with no injuries reported.

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.

Israeli gunboats on Monday evening opened fire at Palestinian fishermen and their boats in the northern waters of the Gaza Strip.

According to a local committee the fishermen were working within three to six nautical miles when they were came under fire from gunboats.

The intensity of the shooting forced the fishermen to go ashore.

Luckily no one was hurt in the shooting attack.

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.

The Israeli occupation naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the southern besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning.

Locals reported that Israeli gunboats heavily opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Rafah and Khan Younis forcing them to head back to shore.

The Israeli navy on a daily basis detains and shoots at unarmed Palestinian fishermen in Gaza even after the fishing zone has been expanded recently.