Maritime gas deal in jeopardy as Israel ‘rejects’ Lebanon changes
Israel will reject Lebanon’s amendments to a United States-drafted proposal on resolving a long-running maritime border dispute over gas-rich waters off the countries’ Mediterranean coasts according to an Israeli official, throwing into doubt years of diplomatic efforts to enable both enemy countries to extract gas in or around a disputed Mediterranean prospect. A draft agreement – which has not been made public – was floated by US envoy Amos Hochstein and had a mostly warm preliminary reception from the Israeli and Lebanese governments when they received it at the weekend. However, after Lebanon presented its response to Washington’s proposal on Tuesday, Israeli media and the AFP news agency reported that Israel had rejected on Thursday the modifications to the US proposal. Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from West Jerusalem. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ #Lebanon #Israel #LebanonIsraelMaritimeBorder #LebanonIsraelMaritimeDispute
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