Any further conversations would come to an end if the Lebanese Hezbollah organisation endangered the gas development platform in the Karish field, according to an Israeli official who announced Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s decision to reject the requests for reviews.
With the arrival of a production and storage vessel close to the Karish field, which Beirut believes is situated in a disputed area, in preparation for the beginning of gas extraction from it, developments regarding the file of demarcating the maritime borders between the two countries have resumed after a halt.
The action caused Beirut to demand that negotiations resume under US supervision.
The boundaries of the maritime region, which is estimated to be 860 square kilometres, are known as Line 23, according to a chart that Lebanon gave to the United Nations in 2011.
Lebanon asked to search an extra 1,430 square kilometres, which included a portion of the Karish field known as Line 29, after later concluding that the map was based on inaccurate estimations.
The Qana field is situated in a region where Line 23 connects with Line 1, the line Israel deposed to the UN, and goes beyond Line 23.
Due to disagreements about the location of the disputed region, the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel that were started in 2020 with American mediation were called off in May of that year.
Lebanon’s changes to the proposed boundary demarcation agreement are rejected by Israel.
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