A destroyed fishing boat, Gaza/ Eve Bartlett
Until last Monday, Omar and
Khaled al-Habil were the owners of a 20 meter fishing trawler staffed
by five or six fishermen at a time, but employing around 18 in cycles.
But that morning the vessel came under heavy Israeli navy machine-gun
fire, and then shelling. The trawler caught fire.
"It's destroyed, completely destroyed," says al-Habil.
"They had left early in the morning and headed north," al-Habil said,
of the crew of five fishermen that morning, including his son Adham
al-Habil. He says the boat was well within a three-mile limit set by
Israel.
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