TEHRAN, December 03 - More than a dozen Palestinians have been injured and scores of others sustained injuries as hundreds of people staged a demonstration near the Gaza Strip's northern maritime border with the Israeli-occupied territories during a weekly protest against the Tel Aviv regime’s 12-year naval blockade.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The Palestine Red Crescent Society said in a statement that two protesters were struck with live bullets, while 15 others suffered wounds after being hit with rubber-coated steel bullets. Another Palestinian protester was injured by shrapnel.
Dozens of demonstrators suffered tear gas inhalation as well, and were transferred to hospitals for treatment.
Palestinian sources said 30 boats flying national Palestinian flags attempted to break Israel’s naval siege northwest of the city of Beit Lahia.
Israel 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 a ceasefire agreement reached between the Israelis and Palestinians following a deadly 50-day Israeli war in the same month.
The fishing zone is supposed to extend to 20 nautical miles under the Oslo Accords. The Oslo Accords were signed between the Israeli regime and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) during the early-mid 1990s to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In May 2017, Israeli authorities increased the fishing area for Gazan fishermen to nine nautical miles.
Over the past few years, Israeli forces have carried out more than a hundred attacks on Palestinian boats, arresting dozens of fishermen and confiscating several boats.
The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standard of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
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