Israeli warships fire at Gaza fishermen

Date: 20 / 07 / 2008 Time: 10:34
Gaza – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces warships opened fire at Gazan fishermen for three hours on Sunday morning.

Security sources in the Hamas de facto government in the Gaza Strip told Ma'an that Israeli occupation warships fired a number of anti-tank missiles at fishermen's boats and opened fire heavily at them while fishing in the Sudaniya area north of Gaza City and Al-Shati camp west of Gaza City. The shots were fired between 3 and 6 in the morning.

Sources explained that the missiles horrified fishermen and damaged several boats. No injuries have been reported.

There has been a ceasefire in place in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian factions for one month, however the ceasefire has been breached repeatedly by Israeli forces. Palestinian factions, on the other hand, have succeeded in preventing the launch of homemade projectiles towards Israeli towns after minor factions tried a few time to launch homemade projectiles.

There have been 7 projectiles and one mortar shell launched from Gaza that Hamas was unable to prevent. Israel used those minor incidents as a pretext to close Gaza crossing points.

Agriculture ministry condemns IOF firing at Palestinian fishermen

[ 20/07/2008 - 10:58 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)--

The PA agriculture ministry on Sunday lashed out at Israeli occupation forces for constantly firing at Palestinian fishermen at sea and even at the beach.
The ministry in a press release said that the IOF gunboats fired at the fishing boats off Sudania area to the northwest of Gaza city open Sunday morning causing damage to those boats, which were anchored at the shore.
It said that the IOF troops fire at fishermen at sea and during their work in fishing nets on the beach in absolute disregard of the calm that went into effect a month ago.
"Fishermen in Gaza never really sensed the IOF commitment to the calm", it added.
The ministry asked the international and legal organizations to monitor those violations and to denounce them and not to allow the occupation to fight the fishermen in their sole source of sustenance.

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