Rabid Dog israeli forces injure two Palestinians in Gaza Strip

israeli forces have shot and injured two Palestinians in a town east of the Palestinian city of Khan Yunis in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Israeli forces injured two young men in the lower extremities of Absan on Friday, the Ma’an news agency quoted Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as saying.

An Israeli army spokesman, reached for details of the incidnet by the news agency, said that he was not aware of the incident

In a similar development on Thursday, Israeli naval forces opened fire at Palestinian fishermen across the al-Sudaniya coastline off Gaza City.

Palestinian fishermen pull their nets as they collect fish at the seaport in Gaza city on January 11, 2015. © AFP
The shooting came despite an August 26 ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinians, under which Tel Aviv agreed to immediately expand the fishing zone off Gaza’s coast, allowing fishermen in the blockaded sliver to sail as far as six nautical miles from shore. The agreement also stipulated that the regime would expand the area gradually up to 12 miles.

The ceasefire deal put an end to the Israeli regime’s 50-day military offensive against Gaza, which claimed more than 2,100 lives and injured nearly 11,000 last summer.

Since September 1, however, Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian fishermen, arrested over 49 more, injured 17, confiscated 12 fishing boats and damaged fishing tools in nine other such incidents.

The Gaza Strip has been under Israel’s blockade since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standard of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.