{"id":92540,"date":"2017-05-22T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=92540"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:17:54","slug":"gazas-fishermen-and-farmers-attacked-from-sea-and-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/05\/gazas-fishermen-and-farmers-attacked-from-sea-and-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza\u2019s Fishermen and Farmers Attacked from Sea and Air"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crops on a farm in Gaza, severely damaged by herbicide sprayed by Israeli planes.
B\u2019Tselem investigated and published this photo, February 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Israeli forces fire at Gaza fishermen, spray pesticides on Palestinian crops<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

By Ma\u2019an
\nMay 09, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

GAZA CITY \u2014 Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, locals told Ma\u2019an.<\/p>\n

Fishermen said that Israeli forces shot at Palestinian fishing boats in two separate incidents off the northern coast of Gaza on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma\u2019an that they were looking into the reports.<\/p>\n

Tuesday morning\u2019s events came a day after Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian fisherman with live fire off the coast of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

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Replacing the machine guns with water cannon. The navy does this when a boat has international observers in it. Filmed by International Solidarity Movement.<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, Gaza farmers told Ma\u2019an that Israeli drones sprayed pesticides on Palestinian crops along the border with Israel in central and southern Gaza on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

The pesticides, they said, damage crops in the area, which is Gaza\u2019s main agricultural region.<\/p>\n

The army spokesperson also said she would look into the case.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Gazan farmers said that Israeli forces regularly sprayed weed killers on both sides of the border fence to guarantee a clear view of the area for the army.<\/p>\n

However, Gaza Ministry of Agriculture agronomist Wael Thabet told Ma\u2019an at the time that the chemicals could travel up to 1,200 metres through the air away from the buffer zone, burning crops and causing Palestinian farmers huge economic losses.<\/p>\n

Palestinians who work near the Israeli-designated \u201cbuffer zone,\u201d which lies on both the land and sea sides of Gaza, often come under fire from Israeli military forces, as the authorities have not made clear the precise area of the designated zone.<\/p>\n

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Encounter between Gaza fishermen and Israeli patrol boats<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Harriet Sherwood, Guardian
\nJuly 20, 2011 \u2014 just a short quote from her Tweets<\/em><\/p>\n

One IDF boat just circling our boats about 50m away. Other boat a bit further away.<\/p>\n

A lot of resources devoted to a few tiny fishing boats.<\/p>\n

Sea is calm today \u2013 except our little bit. Backwash creating lot of waves. They keep sounding siren. But we have all cut engines.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m told that the point of the IDF continually circling us is to create continuous waves and noise. Makes fishing harder.<\/p>\n

One fishing boat just been swamped by backwash. They are giving up and going back to port.<\/p>\n

The photo below has been used many times in the last three years to illustrate Israeli naval vessels firing at fishing boats from Gaza. No date, no credit, but it appears to be what it says it is.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Go to Original \u2013 jfjfp.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fishermen said that Israeli forces shot at Palestinian fishing boats in two separate incidents off the northern coast of Gaza on Tuesday [9 May] morning. Meanwhile, Gaza farmers told Ma\u2019an that Israeli drones sprayed pesticides on Palestinian crops along the border with Israel in central and southern Gaza on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}