Israeli occupation navy opens fire at Gaza fishermen

GAZA – Israeli occupation navy dawn Tuesday opened fire at Palestinian fishermen offshore al-Sudaniya, west of Gaza city, according to local sources, Wafa News Agency reported.

The fishermen were sailing within three nautical miles offshore the area when Israeli occupation naval boats opened gunfire toward them, forcing the fishermen to flee for their safety.

 No casualties were reported, however.

Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli occupation blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.

Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.

Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace. Meanwhile, “Israel” upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.

Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is called now “Israel”. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.

Raghda Sawas