Israeli warships fire on Gazan boats

Source: PressTV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124665§ionid=351020202


Israeli navy warships have once again opened fire on Palestinian fishermen along the shore of the Gaza Strip, inflicting damage on their boats.

The Tuesday fire drove the Gazan fishermen away though they had stayed close to the coastline, the International Middle East Media Center reported.

The fire caused no casualties, it added.

Marine life and agriculture remain two of the Gaza Strip's staple sources of livelihood ever since mid-June 2007, when Tel Aviv subjected the coastal sliver to an all-out embargo, tightening the restrictions it had already put in place.

The coastline has, however, been polluted with sewage which Gaza has nowhere else to dump, given its broken waste disposal system.

The Israeli navy also carries out regular patrols of the shore to prevent the fishermen from sailing deep into the sea where they can net quality fish.

Israel has, meanwhile, declared 20 percent of the arable lands in Gaza a no-go area. Israeli forces would keep surveillance of the area and attack any farmer who might approach the “buffer zone.”