Palestinian gas resources; The hidden goals of the Zionists in the Gaza war

According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency quoted from Al Jazeera, 1999 was the beginning of Zionist companies’ attention to gas fields in Palestinian territorial waters; Where the Zionists started exploring and investing in Palestinian waters, and after that the occupying regime in Occupied Palestine changed from importing gas to exporting.

Zionist control over Palestine’s natural resources and wealth

The discovery of oil and gas in the Mediterranean waters by the Zionist regime added a new element to the Arab conflict with this regime; While the Zionist regime’s ambitions in the oil and gas wealth of the Eastern Mediterranean did not end.

In the meantime, the authorities of the Ministry of Energy of the Zionist regime were able to guarantee their domestic market with gas resources, and 70% of the electricity needs of this regime are met by gas extracted from the waters of Palestine is supplied by the Mediterranean Sea. The occupying regime also started launching gas connection and export projects with neighboring Arab countries and set its goal to access the European market and other investment projects with geopolitical dimensions.

Palestinian gas fields in the grip of the Zionist occupation

In the meantime, the energy map of the Zionist regime includes Levitan, Tamar gas fields, gas extraction platforms in front of Ashkelon and Haifa coasts, pumping stations and gas extraction for liquefaction. It is transported to Egypt’s Medco gas company in Sinai, as well as treatment and pressure reduction stations, which are connected to the local market by pumping through a network of lines.

Depriving the Palestinian people of billions of dollars in gas wealth

The authorities of the Ministry of Energy of the Zionist regime are also negotiating with the American company “Sharon” to establish gas liquefaction stations on the coast of Palestine. The British company, which has discovered two gas fields on the coast of Gaza, has estimated the amount of natural gas reserves in it to be about one and a half trillion cubic feet, and based on estimates, the total value of the gas market in these two fields is more than 6 to 8 billion. It is dollars.

Based on these estimates, the total production of the Levitan gas field is estimated to be around 12 billion cubic meters per year, and this amount will gradually increase to around 21 billion cubic meters per year. found.

Also, the reserves of Temar gas field are estimated to be around 280 billion cubic meters and its production started in 2013. The Tamar gas platform produces between 7.1 and 8.5 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.

UN reports show that the occupation regime is preventing Palestinians from benefiting from their natural wealth estimated at billions of dollars and through the current devastating war Displacing the people of the Gaza Strip and exploiting more of the Palestinians’ natural resources.

The occupying regime prevents the Palestinian Authority from reaching energy wells, both in the borders of the West Bank with the Jordan River and in territorial waters off the coast of Gaza. The West Bank is now under the direct occupation of the Zionists, and the residents of Gaza are not allowed to access more than 7 kilometers to the sea.

According to the reports of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development published in 2019, geologists and economists in the field of natural resources stated that the occupied Palestinian territories above the reservoirs The largest oil and gas field is located in the 3rd region of the West Bank and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in front of the Gaza Strip.

The Zionist regime has prevented any opportunity for the Palestinians to exploit the gas fields on the Gaza coast. The occupying regime has also created many restrictions for the Palestinians, which prevent the transfer of Palestinian gas in the occupied territories of 1948 to other areas.

Gaza war and the looting of Palestinian natural resources

As ​​it was said, the Zionist occupation regime has controlled Gaza’s energy and water resources and hindered the efforts of the Palestinians to establish an independent energy infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. It will be.

In this context, the American website Mondovis, in an article about the connection between the war in Gaza and the natural resources on the coast of this region, stated that the current aggression of Israel on the Gaza Strip cannot be separated. It is considered one of the rich sources of natural gas on the shores of this narrow strip.

This American media added: Israel’s deliberate destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza and the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians is only for the purpose of forcing the people of Gaza to migrate from this strip. Gaza should be fully handed over to the Israelis so that they can complete their colonial projects there.

Globalization Research Center based in Montreal, Canada also in a report entitled “Erase Gaza from the map; The agenda of big money and the confiscation of the sea reserves of Palestinian natural gas”, presented detailed articles about the hidden goals of the occupying regime’s encroachment on the Gaza Strip.

This report talks in detail about the goals of the Zionist regime to displace Palestinians in Gaza and it is emphasized that the Zionists seek to confiscate Gaza’s natural gas reserves.

“Michel Chosudovsky”, a Canadian economist, founder and head of the Globalization Research Center, said last October that Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration of war against Gaza, the continuation of the attack on this strip since It is 2008. The primary goal of this war is the explicit military occupation of Gaza, the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, and the confiscation of natural gas reserves in the Gaza Strip. Especially those that were discovered in 1999 by the British Gas Company.

About two years before the existence of secret negotiations between the Zionist regime and the Arab countries of the region, the Monitor newspaper reported about the exploration of natural gas on the shores of the Gaza Strip and announced that Tel Aviv has postponed the gas exploration operation on the coast of Gaza for security reasons.

The Zionist regime and the green normalization project

The Zionist regime recently started working on the green normalization project with the neighboring Arab countries, which will start from 2021 and will last until 2050; A problem that gives this regime a longer time horizon to invest and influence in the region using natural gas energy.

Algerian writer Hamza Hamoshan and English writer Kitty Sandwell in the book “Challenge of Green Capitalism; Regional justice and energy transfer in the Arab region”, they refer to the normalization agreements of the Zionist regime with the Arab countries and emphasize that Tel Aviv is focused on controlling a large part of the energy and gas resources in the region in these normalization agreements.

For example, it is stated in a part of this book: during the coming years, Jordan will send all the electricity produced from the solar farm that is built on the land of this country to It will sell the value of 180 million dollars to Israel, and in this way, Israel will not need to use its capacity to operate the desalination plant that delivers 200 million cubic meters of water to Jordan annually.

This is part of the goal of the Zionist regime to strengthen the energy and water desalination sectors. The desalination method that the Zionist regime relies on for water supply until 2030 constitutes a large part of this regime’s energy consumption. Therefore, the Zionists seek to increase access to alternative sources of energy and green normalization, which will solve this problem for them.

In the meantime, Jordan imports 75% of its natural gas, and according to the contract signed with the Zionist regime, which is worth 10 billion dollars, the Levitan gas field in The Mediterranean Sea will supply 60 billion cubic meters of gas to Jordan in 15 years.

According to what is stated in the mentioned book, Jordan will remain hostage to the import of natural gas, especially from occupied Palestine, and will export its green energy to the Zionists. Therefore, green normalization allows the Zionist regime to strengthen its position in the energy and water sector at the regional and global level.