Martyrs of their daily bread

I doubt we'll be hearing much of this in our news. From the Times of Israel:

Three Palestinian fishermen were killed in an explosion off the coast of the Gaza Strip in what appeared to be a misfired rocket launched by the Hamas terror group.

The explosion occurred close to the coast of Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. The three deceased fishermen, Yahya Mustafa al-Laham, Hamdi al-Laham and Zakaria al-Laham, were two brothers and their cousin, Gaza fishermens’ union head Nizar Ayyah told local media.

“They were the martyrs of their daily bread,” the al-Laham family said in a statement on their official Facebook page. The three had died, the family said, after “a local mortar struck their boat.”

A local mortar.

Hamas regularly fires experimental rockets toward the sea, both to test their military capacities and as a show of force.

Hamas’ military wing said it mourned the death of the three fishermen “with great sorrow.” …

In a statement, the Hamas Interior Ministry also said it was “investigating the incident.” The terror group, which avowedly seeks to destroy Israel, regularly condemns Israel for other incidents that have led to wounded fishermen in the Gaza Strip.

It was not the first time that technical errors with weaponry were said to harm or even kill civilians living in the Gaza Strip. In the past, blasts have sometimes been caused by accidents as operatives of terrorist organizations in the territory built bombs or otherwise handled explosives.

Last month, a blast ripped through a building in northern Gaza, injuring at least 36 civilians. The Israeli military charged that Palestinian terror groups had stored weapons inside civilian homes. Hamas promised to investigate the incident, but no conclusion has yet been reached.