Two Palestinian fishermen on Friday morning suffered bullet injuries when Israeli naval forces opened fire at them and their boat off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip.
According to the union of fishermen committees fisherman Mohamed Baker and his son Mahmoud suffered bullet injuries as they were working aboard their boat off the shore of Gaza City.
The boat’s engine also sustained damage in the Israeli gunfire 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.
