Zionist forces shoot at Palestinian fishermen off Gaza, arrest two

Palestinian officials say Zionist entity's naval forces have opened fire on several Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip, and arrested two brothers.

Head of the Fishermen Committees in the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Zakaria Bakr, told Arabic-language Safa news agency that Israeli regime forces targeted the Palestinian boats off the northern shores of the coastal sliver on Thursday morning.

Bakr added that marines then boarded a boat and arrested two brothers, identified as Rasem and Mohammed Zayed, before taking them to an unknown location.

On February 25, Israeli naval forces opened fire on a Palestinian fishing boat off the coast of the Gaza Strip, martyring a fisherman and injuring two others.

About 4,000 fishermen work in Gaza, half of whom live below the poverty line.

The illegal Zionist entity imposed a limit of three nautical miles on fishing in the waters off the Gaza shore until August 2014, when Palestinian fishermen were allowed to go out six miles.

Under the Oslo Accords, the fishing zone is supposed to extend to 20 nautical miles, but it has shrunk over the years as the Tel Aviv regime has imposed greater restrictions.

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