According to local sources, zionists’ gunboats tried to capsize fishing boats and showered them with skunk water.

The attack forced the fishermen to return ashore, but luckily no one was hurt.

The zionist occupation navy and their gunboats are around Gaza fishermen almost every day, harassing them, shooting at them, damaging their boats, and making arrests. 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 zionist occupation regime has kept reducing the fishing area gradually to a limit between six to three nautical miles as part of its blockade on Gaza.

Fishermen and human rights groups also say that since the 2008-09 war in Gaza, the zionist occupation has been regularly enforcing a limit even closer to the shore.

ILKHA