Gaza. Israeli army hits Palestinian fishermen with a bullet

Gaza. Israeli army hits Palestinian fishermen with a bullet

Israeli occupying forces shot at Palestinian fishermen on Friday, wounding them and disabling their boat in the Gaza Strip´s sea.

"The military occupation boats on Friday opened fire on a fishing boat with the fishermen Mohammed Saad Bakr and his son Mahmud in the sea north of Gaza City, where they were hit by a number of coated metal bullets," said Zakariya Bakr, coordinator of the "Agricultural Action committees" in the Gaza Strip. Rubber ".

"The fire also injured the engine of the boat that the fishermen were on board with bullets," Baker said.

He noted that there was an intension proliferation of Israeli boats in the Khan Younis Sea in the southern Gaza Strip.

The process of targeting fishermen by the occupying forces at sea has become a daily addition to the series of violations by the occupying forces against the Gaza Strip since the signing of the agreement on pacification between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation on 26 August August 2014, under the auspices of Egypt.

The Oslo agreement signed between the PLO and the Israeli occupation on 13 September 1993 provides for fishermen to sail 20 nautical miles along the shores of the Gaza Strip, but the occupation has reduced the distance to only 6 nautical miles.