The Palestinian Naval Police, also known as the Gaza Marine, is a branch of the
Palestinian National Security Forces
The Palestinian National Security Forces (NSF; ar, قوات الأمن الوطني الفلسطيني ''Quwwat al-Amn al-Watani al-Filastini'') are the paramilitary security forces of the Palestinian National Authority. The name may either re ...
whose task includes securing the coastline of the
Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...
. The Naval Police was established in the
Gaza–Jericho Agreement
The Gaza–Jericho Agreement, officially called Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area, was a follow-up treaty to the Oslo I Accord in which details of Palestinian autonomy were concluded. The agreement is commonly known as the 1994 Cairo ...
signed on 4 May 1994. Under the
Oslo II Accord, its activities are restricted to 6 nautical miles from the coast.
Analysis on independent Palestinian sea operations are usually discussed within the context of final status agreements during peace negotiations with Israel. Since the declaration of the
State of Palestine, most sources that mention the term refer to only the coastal regions along the Gaza Strip.
History
The Gaza–Jericho Agreement stipulated a partial withdrawal of the
Israeli Defence Forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branch ...
from the Gaza Strip and
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
, providing the two areas with limited Palestinian self-rule for five years under the newly established
Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority was invested with legislative, executive, judicial and policing powers to maintain order and security. Details of the security arrangements along the
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...
coast of the Gaza Strip are set out in Article XI of Annex I of the agreement. It was also agreed to establish a center for coordination and maritime cooperation between the two sides.
The headquarters of the Naval Police is located in the
Port of Gaza
The Port of Gaza is a small port near the Rimal district of Gaza City. It is the home port of Palestinian fishing-boats and the base of the Palestinian Naval Police, a branch of the Palestinian National Security Forces. Under the Oslo II Accord, ...
. In January 2002, the Israeli commando unit
Shayetet 13 raided the port, sank two patrol boats and destroyed the headquarters and its warehouses after Naval Police commanders were implicated in the
Karine A affair, an attempt to secretly bring in 50 tons of weapons by boat into Gaza.
Israeli navy attacks Gaza port
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