GAZA CITY, A Palestinian teenager fishing off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday drowned following firing by the Zio=Nazi Navy, a health official and witnesses said.
“Adolescent Zyad el-Bardawil, 15, died after Zio=Nazi pursued his boat at sea,” a spokesman for Gaza’s health services, Adham Abu Selmiya said.
According to witnesses, the Zio=Nazi Navy opened fire on fishing boats off the coast of Rafah when one of the boats overturned and the teenager drowned.
The boy’s boat was part of a small flotilla of fishing boats that was pursued by a navy patrol boat, the witnesses said.
Fishing zones are strictly limited off Gaza by Zio=Nazi which has imposed a blockade of the Gaza Strip.
