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Israeli fire wounds three Palestinians in Gaza

27 November 2010 18:01 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Israel fire wounded three Palestinians on Saturday in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, medical sources said, APA reports quoting Xinhua News Agency.

In the morning, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was injured in his leg while collecting gravel in northern Gaza, while in the afternoon, a 19-year-old worker was wounded when digging for gravel in the same area.

Also on Saturday, the Israeli naval forces fired at a Palestinian fishing boat off the Gaza city coast, wounding a 26- year-old fisherman, said Adham Abu Selmia, spokesman for the health ministry’s emergency department.

Israel has imposed a naval and ground blockade on the Gaza Strip. In June, it started to ease the land closure, allowing more goods into the territory, but still banning the fishermen from sailing beyond a space of two nautical miles.

Israel has also allocated a 300-meter-wide buffer zone along its borders with Gaza, where, according to official statistics, 71 people have been wounded since February, most of them being gravel diggers.