Israeli occupation navy fired on Tuesday, 13 June 2023 rubber bullets and gas bombs at Palestinian fishing boats off the shore of besieged Gaza strip, injuring one Palestinian fisherman.
Local Palestinian media sources reported that the IOF stationed in the gunboats fired rubber bullets toward the boats of the fishermen and injured the Palestinian fisherman Jaafar Hassan Bakr off the shore of Gaza.
Since 2007, the Israeli occupation has reduced the fishing zone gradually to a limit of between six to three nautical miles as part of its blockade on Gaza.
Israeli occupation continues its illegal practices against Palestinian fishers, which are part of Israel’s illegal siege that amounts to a prohibited collective punishment under international law.
According to the Palestinian Fishermen’s Association in Gaza, there are some 4,000 fishermen working in Gaza’s fishing sector, who are looking after about 50,000 dependents.
The profession has been deemed dangerous by rights organizations due to Israel’s harassment of fishermen at sea.
It is worth mentioning that Israeli occupation authorities still prohibit the entry of essential fishing materials and supplies to the besieged enclave as part of their suffocating siege imposed on Gaza since 2007.
In 2020, Israeli occupation forces attacked Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip on at least 320 occasions, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) reported 63 more attacks than the previous year.
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