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On April 14th, 2025, at least one person, a fisherman, was allegedly injured after the Israeli military opened fire on a fishing boat in al-Mawasi, located in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
While media outlets such as AlarabyTV, Al-Hadath Palestine Newspaper, Philadelphia News, Radio Science, and Media News, along with various Facebook and Twitter sources, reported that only one fisherman was injured, both @PalinfoAr on Twitter and Fifth News Network on Facebook reported that two individuals were injured in a shooting incident in al-Mawasi. This assessment will be updated if more information emerges.
Where sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli military forces.
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Reports of the incident mention the area of Al-Mawasi (المواصي) to the west of Rafah (رفح), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.329722, 34.233754. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.