Israeli occupation forces target Palestinian fishermen, preventing them from reaching places rich in fish

Popular committee: $100,000 is the daily losses of fishing industry

[ 04/05/2008 - 05:23 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The popular committee against the siege stated Sunday that preliminary reports indicate that the daily losses of fishing industry in the Gaza Strip is estimated at $70,000 in addition to $30,000 daily losses as a result of the inability of fishermen to export their fish to markets outside Gaza.

In a press conference held in the Dair Al-Balah harbor, Rami Abdo, the spokesman for the committee, added that the total losses since start of the Israeli siege until today amounted to more than $27,000,000.

The spokesman elaborated that 70,000 people in Gaza depend on the fishing craft and 3,500 fishermen make their living from this profession, 3,000 of them became unemployed.

For his part, Nizar Ayash, the dean of Palestinian fishermen, underlined that Israeli occupation forces targets the Palestinian fishermen through preventing them from fishing in places rich in fish, shooting them, damaging their fishing net by Israeli occupation military boats besides many other arbitrary acts that hinder fishermen from practicing their profession.

In another context, the spokesman for popular committee against the siege announced Sunday the death of a Palestinian patient called Mariam Rashwan, 58, who had been suffering from a heart disease. Her death raised the number of patients who died as a result of the Israeli siege to 142 victims.

The spokesman said that the patient's family tried repeatedly to coordinate with the IOA to allow her to travel outside Gaza for medical treatment but to no avail.

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