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Israel approves maritime border deal with Lebanon

The Israeli government has finally passed the agreement on the common sea border with Lebanon, thus paving the way for signing.

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Israel approves maritime border deal with Lebanon

The Israeli government has finally passed the agreement on the common sea border with Lebanon, thus paving the way for signing. This is a diplomatic achievement, said Israeli Prime Minister Jair Lapid on Thursday at the beginning of the special cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. "It's not every day that a hostile country recognizes the State of Israel in a written agreement before the international community." Officially, both countries are at war.

The agreements, signed separately by Israel and Lebanon, were due to be handed over to US mediator Amos Hochstein by negotiating teams at a United Nations (UN) base in Nakura in southern Lebanon this afternoon.

The agreement puts an end to a decades-long dispute between the two warring countries over an area of ​​sea off the coast. The dispute over the border in the Mediterranean had intensified after the discovery of large quantities of natural gas. The negotiations were mediated by the United States.

The agreement is intended to enable the economically ailing Lebanon to develop the offshore gas field Kana. It is still unclear how much gas can actually be extracted there. The area around the Karish gas platform, northeast of the Israeli port city of Haifa, remains within Israeli sovereign territory. The country started gas production there on Wednesday.

The gas from Israel could also help ease Europe's energy crisis. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU has increasingly been looking for other gas suppliers.

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