Palestinian Boat Catches Fire as Israeli Navy Fires at Fishermen Off Gaza

• Palestinian Boat Catches Fire as Israeli Navy Fires at Fishermen Off Gaza
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  A Palestinian fishing boat has caught fire after Israeli naval forces repeatedly opened fire on a group of vessels off the northern coast of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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  Palestinian media on Thursday reported that the Israeli navy fired on Gaza fishing boats off the shores of the besieged Palestinian enclave, causing one of them to catch fire. Head of the Fishermen Committees in the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Zakaria Bakr, told Palestinian Ma’an news agency that the Israeli raid took place as Palestinian boats were located three nautical miles off the northern coast of Gaza.
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  Sources said at least two fishermen aboard the boat, which was set on fire, were detained by the Tel Aviv regime’s forces. The Israeli naval vessels then towed some Palestinian boats to the Port of Ashdod in southern Israel.
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  Israel imposed a limit of three nautical miles on fishing in the waters off the Gaza until August 2014, when Palestinian fishermen were allowed to go out six miles under a ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Palestinians following a deadly 50-day Israeli war.
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  The fishing zone were supposed to extend to 20 nautical miles under the Oslo Accords, which were signed between the Israeli regime and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) during the early-mid 1990s to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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