Israel Tightens Gaza Fishing Curbs after New Fire Balloons
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Israel announced Wednesday it had tightened restrictions on Palestinian fishing off the blockaded Gaza Strip after more balloons fitted with firebombs were floated from the enclave into its territory.
The zone it allows Gaza fishermen was reduced to a maximum of 10 nautical miles from 15, COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry unit that oversees such regulations, said.
The move came just days after Israel restored the fishing limit to the 15 nautical mile maximum after a previous cut in response to fire balloons last week.
Palestinians in Gaza have frequently floated balloons fitted with firebombs over the border to damage Israeli property and have succeeded in setting fire to large areas of farmland.
Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, run by Islamist movement Hamas, have fought three wars since 2008.
29 May 2019, 13:50
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This should be a permanent condition. You send over incendiary balloons, you lose a couple more miles of fishing.
One of these days it might filter into their minds that it is better for the fishermen to go up to 15 miles from the coast than to go only 5 miles simply because their Hamas terrorist occupiers force other Gazans to keep sending over those balloons.
The equation should simply be every balloon one mile less.
