[Sean]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Well, it appears to have been happening for a while and has upset one Member of the Scottish Parliament sufficiently for him to write to the Israeli Ambassador about it in September.

This page from the Window Into Palestine blog gives an idea of what is going on.

To add balance, it goes back to 2002 when a suicide dinghy was detonated next to an Israeli boat.

Well, I can understand the paranoia after the dinghy attacks, but if the accounts of firing on fishing vessels in Palestinian waters are correct, they sound unjustified.