A coalition of Gaza-based terror groups is threatening to clash with Israeli forces attempting to enforce a ban on fishing off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
The Joint Operations Room, a coalition of Gaza factions which includes many groups involved in launching hundreds of explosive devices into Israel in recent weeks, says that “we will not allow the enemy to behave horribly towards our people’s fishermen and aggress upon their livelihoods and rob them. We will defend them and work to protect them.”
Around 3,700 fishermen were registered in the Gaza Strip as of 2017, according to the human rights group B’Tselem.
Israel banned fishing off the coast of the Gaza Strip last week in an attempt to force the Hamas terror group to crack down on the explosive devices being launched into Israel from the coastal enclave.
At least one fisherman who attempted to break the ban was fired upon by Israeli forces, a security source confirmed to The Times of Israel. So far no injuries have been reported.
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