GHAZA - Four Palestinian fishermen were arrested by the Egyptian Navy off Ghaza, according to Palestinian security services and witnesses Saturday.
The four men were at sea when they were arrested Friday evening by Egyptian naval forces off the town of Rafah in the southern Palestinian territory, the sources said.
Witnesses said the fishermen had entered Egyptian territorial waters.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Hamas confirmed the arrest of four fishermen who were in the process of "exercising their profession" and called on Egyptian authorities to end of "oppressing" the Palestinian fishermen, in a statement.
Egypt has recently strengthened under U.S. and Israeli pressure, the device against smuggling land and sea with the Ghaza Strip to prevent trafficking of weapons to Hamas.
The Ghaza Strip is under an Israeli blockade, including shipping, since the summer of 2006, strengthened after its takeover by the Islamist movement in June 2007.
Israel, which controls access by sea and air to the territory, reduced the fishing area, which was 20 miles (about 37 km) under the Oslo accords of 1993 to 3 miles (about 5.5 km) today.
Before the embargo, about 3,500 fishermen exercise fishing along 40 kilometers of coastline of the Ghaza Strip.
Source: Ennahar Online.
Link: http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/3131.html.
The four men were at sea when they were arrested Friday evening by Egyptian naval forces off the town of Rafah in the southern Palestinian territory, the sources said.
Witnesses said the fishermen had entered Egyptian territorial waters.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Hamas confirmed the arrest of four fishermen who were in the process of "exercising their profession" and called on Egyptian authorities to end of "oppressing" the Palestinian fishermen, in a statement.
Egypt has recently strengthened under U.S. and Israeli pressure, the device against smuggling land and sea with the Ghaza Strip to prevent trafficking of weapons to Hamas.
The Ghaza Strip is under an Israeli blockade, including shipping, since the summer of 2006, strengthened after its takeover by the Islamist movement in June 2007.
Israel, which controls access by sea and air to the territory, reduced the fishing area, which was 20 miles (about 37 km) under the Oslo accords of 1993 to 3 miles (about 5.5 km) today.
Before the embargo, about 3,500 fishermen exercise fishing along 40 kilometers of coastline of the Ghaza Strip.
Source: Ennahar Online.
Link: http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/3131.html.
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