Israeli navy today bombed a Palestinian-owned fishing boat while in the sea across from the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent quoted a fisherman saying the Israeli navy bombed the fishing boat that was sailing six nautical miles into the sea. Smoke and flames could be seen coming out from the boat, he said.

Despite the signed agreements between the Palestinians and Israel, which allow fishermen to go 12 nautical miles inside the Mediterranean Sea, the Israeli navy, nevertheless, targets Gaza fishermen almost daily and does not allow them to go further than six nautical miles in the south and only three in the north, which the fishermen say is not enough to catch fish.

A large number of Gazans rely on fishing for daily living in light of the tight 12-year-old blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip.

Source: Palestine News & Info Agency