GAZA, (PIC)-- The Hamas Movement on Saturday strongly denounced Israel for letting its gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishermen, considering such acts aas one of the repeated violations of the truce.

Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, pointed out that the calm agreement clearly stipulates the cessation of all forms of Israeli aggression whether on land or sea, starting in Gaza for six months and then extending to the West Bank.

Barhoum added that Israel is flouting all truce agreement items where it is still closing all Gaza crossings and its troops are targeting Palestinian fishermen at sea and farmers on the Gaza borderline.

For his part, Nizar Ayesh, the head of the Palestinian fishermen, reported that every night Israeli gunboats open fire at fishing boats at the pretext that they crossed the authorized fishing area.

Ayesh recalled that according to the Oslo agreement, which was signed between the PA and Israel, Palestinian fishermen are allowed to fish at a distance of 20 miles at sea, but in fact they were only allowed to fish at a distance of 4 miles by the Israeli occupation authority.

Palestinian local sources reported that Israeli gunboats opened fire at dawn Saturday at fishing boats in the Soudaniya area, north of Gaza without any reported casualties.