The Israeli occupation navy kidnapped two Palestinian fishermen and confiscated their boat off the coast of Gaza City on Monday.
According to local sources, Israeli gunboats opened fire at fishermen and chased their boats off the shore of Al-Waha area along the Gaza shore.
One of those fishing boats was intercepted and two fishermen aboard it were taken prisoners, the sources added.
The detained fishermen were identified as Mohamed al-Sultan and Hasan Zayed.
Israeli gunboats surround Gaza fishermen almost every day, harassing and shooting at them, damaging their boats, and arresting them. 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 on Gaza, the Israeli army has been regularly enforcing a limit to the fishing area which is closer to the shore.
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