Hundreds of mourners attended on Sunday (September 27) the funeral of two Gaza fishermen, who were shot dead at sea on Friday.

Footage filmed on Sunday shows hundreds gathered in Deir al-Balah for the funeral.

The three brothers were fishing off the coast near the southern border town of Rafah when they were shot by Egyptian naval forces. A third brother was injured.

Hundreds of mourners yesterday buried two Gaza fisherman shot dead at sea, as the Palestinian fishing union blamed Egypt and demanded an investigation.
Three brothers were fishing on Friday in the Mediterranean Sea off the Gaza Strip, a crowded sliver of land sandwiched between Egypt and Israel, when their boat was hit by gunfire.


As hundreds gathered yesterday in the central Gaza district of Deir al-Balah to bury the men, their mother pleaded with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to let her surviving son Yasser Zaazoua come home.