BBC NEWS | Middle East | Gaza fishermen risk Israeli fire: "Every night off Gaza beach you can see the lights of fishing boats rising and falling in the swell.
But they are defying an Israeli ban on all Palestinian fishing, and Rami al-Habeel knows how dangerous that can be.
Last week, he saw his friend, Hani al-Najaar, shot dead on the deck of their trawler.
For more than three months the Israelis have ordered all fishing craft to stay in port.
They say this is to prevent militants who have captured an Israeli soldier in Gaza, smuggling him out by sea.
The fishermen though have no doubt that this is an example of what a UN human rights observer recently described as 'collective punishment' in the territory.
They say the blockade is an Israeli attempt to force the civilian population to put pressure on the militants."