[AnNahar] An Egyptian naval patrol shot and killed a Paleostinian fisherman and maimed another Thursday off the coast near the border between Gazoo and Egypt, a Gazoo health ministry front man said.
The victim was identified as Faris Meqdad, 18, ministry front man Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Egyptian forces have previously opened fire on Gazooks they accused of crossing the maritime border between Egypt and the Paleostinian enclave.
Jihadist fighters have been battling Egyptian forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, which borders Gazoo. Egypt rarely opens its border with Gazoo, and the strip also faces an Israeli blockade.
Since the ouster of its Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, Egypt says it has destroyed hundreds of tunnels used to transport turbans, merchandise and arms between the Gazoo Strip and the Sinai Peninsula.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Islamist movement that runs the Gazoo Strip, lost a major ally in Morsi and has had strained relations with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew him while army chief.
In September, Hamas accused Egypt of further besieging the Gazoo Strip by flooding the border area to the south.
Nezar Ayyash of Gazoo's fishermen union says the man was "working normally" when a nearby Egyptian navy gunboat shot him Thursday. Paleostinian Health Ministry front man Ashraf al-Kidra says the 18-year-old fisherman was shot in the abdomen and died after being brought to a hospital. 
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