GAZA, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Israeli naval forces on Sunday opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza Strip shores, wounding at least one fisherman, medical sources said.

    The sources said a gunshot hit the fisherman in his leg, wounding him moderately, adding that the incident took place in the waters of Rafah, a city in southern Gaza Strip which borders Egypt.

    The shooting violated a fragile Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Islamic Hamas movement, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since June 2007.

    Meanwhile, Palestinian security sources reported that the Israeli gunboats also fired at fishing boats in northern Gaza Strip and the west of Gaza City overnight. No injuries were reported.

    The ceasefire, which took effect in June, was meant to end the violence and ease the blockade that Israel imposed on the territory after Hamas took over the coastal enclave by force in June last year.

    Under the new restrictions, Israel prevented Palestinian fishermen from exceeding 2 nautical miles from the coast.

    Before Hamas' bloody seizure of Gaza, fishermen were allowed to go up to 8 nautical miles off the coast, though the 1993 Oslo Accords stipulates that Palestinian fishermen were entitled to fish up to 20 nautical miles out.