Israeli navy boats open fire at Palestinian fishing boats

[ 07/01/2014 - 10:31 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli navy boats opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. Palestinian sources said that no casualties were reported in the shooting that took place while the fishermen while trying to fish in Gaza’s regional waters. The Israeli navy restricts the fishing area for the Palestinian fishermen to less than six nautical miles that was specified in the calm agreement brokered between Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation authorities under Egyptian auspices in November 2011.