More questions about the exact terms and status of the Gaza Strip ceasefire emerged today with Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev loudly denying claims that Israel had ever agreed to ease their crackdown on fishing by Gazans.
Hamas had reported yesterday that the truce included an agreement to allow Gazans to fish in the six miles off of their own coast, double what the Israeli Navy had previously allowed and a major opportunity for the tiny strip to solve the constant state of food insecurity the Israeli siege has created.
Despite Regev’s denials, fishermen reportedly were able to go outside of the previous limit without being killed, as they so often have in the past. Regev’s comments also denied several other key points of the truce, leaving major questions about its status.
Indeed, Regev maintained that the truce was only a mutual cessation of fire, and that no issues related to the blockade were even brought up, saying that they would be settled later in Israeli negotiations with Egypt.
In the meantime, Gaza fishermen seem to be eagerly moving outward, though they say that most of the best fishing off the sandy coast of Gaza is 15 miles out, still far outside of their reach at any rate.
They can't even fish in their own fucking backyard.
Normally, everyone enjoys 12 miles of waters off their coast before it becomes international. I wonder why Gaza only has 3?
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There's an oil rig that Israel lays claim to 3.5 miles off the Gazan coast.
And why is silent the Dictator of a dictatorship called Egypt?
For brokered by such a Western backed dictatorship was
the peace treaty, back-stabbers that they be.
Such is the master-slave relationship Gaza must suffer with its
invaders, a peace treaty not in writing, peace only as the
enslavers preceive it to be.
Surprise, surprise zionists already backtrack on their agreement, before the ink has dried!
check the number of killings, woundings, etc since the "truce" on the first page & a half of links here – http://www.imemc.org/ – and ask what if the palestinians were perpetrating these acts, plus:
Police order Palestinian workers off buses to West Bank, at request of
Israeli settlers
Police have begun ordering Palestinian laborers with legal work permits off
buses from the Tel Aviv area to the West Bank, following complaints from
settlers that Palestinians pose a security risk by riding the same buses as them… http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/pol…