Contributed by Lucia in Spain
By: Luisa Morgantini
By: Luisa Morgantini
Vice President of the European Parliament
(The article was originally published in the Italian by IL MANIFESTO newspaper on June 18, 2008)
"......In the '90s, when boats of fishermen could sail 12 miles off the coast from the Strip, fishermen could land, trade and export almost 3,000 tons of fish per year
... fishing in Gaza has been decimated, especially over the last five years, due both to military restrictions imposed by the Israeli Authorities and a ban on seafaring which prevents fishermen from sailing more than 3 miles offshore, regardless of the fact that the Oslo Agreements limited to 20 miles the maximum distance from the coasts and that 12 miles were decided by the Bertini Agreement, signed in August 2002 by United Nations and Israel........."
(The article was originally published in the Italian by IL MANIFESTO newspaper on June 18, 2008)
"......In the '90s, when boats of fishermen could sail 12 miles off the coast from the Strip, fishermen could land, trade and export almost 3,000 tons of fish per year
... fishing in Gaza has been decimated, especially over the last five years, due both to military restrictions imposed by the Israeli Authorities and a ban on seafaring which prevents fishermen from sailing more than 3 miles offshore, regardless of the fact that the Oslo Agreements limited to 20 miles the maximum distance from the coasts and that 12 miles were decided by the Bertini Agreement, signed in August 2002 by United Nations and Israel........."
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