Large oil reserve, 250 square kilometres, may lie under Israel and the occupied territories. Palestinians are unlikely to reap the benefits. - Offshore gas and oil fields on Israel, Gaza and Lebanese coast disputed. - Netanyahu builds a fence on the Jordan boarder. - Israeli drone hacked by Hamas. aljazeera/indepth/features/2013/11/israel-drill-oil-west-bank-201311114571416794.html A large oil reserve may lie under Israel and the occupied territories, Palestinians are unlikely to reap the benefits. The oil field could stretch as far as 250 square kilometres. Israels announcement in recent years of discoveries of large natural gas deposits in the Mediterranean has increased tensions with neighbouring countries, especially Lebanon, which has claimed that Israel is drilling in areas where maritime borders are disputed. The Palestinians have located their own significant gas field just off the coast of Gaza. english.al-akhbar/content/israel-rejects-natural-gas-boundary-proposal Disputes between Israel and Lebanon over gasresources in the Eastern Mediterranean: Israel has rejected a proposal for a settlement made by the US to resolve the “dispute” between the Jewish state and Lebanon over the boundaries of each side’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The proposal concerned the disputed area of Block 9 in the Mediterranean, which Israel claims sovereignty over. 972mag/jordan-valley-fence-would-finalize-the-west-banks-complete-enclosure/81323/ Netanyahu is reviving plans to build a ‘security fence’ in the Jordan Valley. If the fence follows the original route it will enclose any future Palestinian state, cement impossible Bantustan borders and give birth to a new map of Israel’s borders. richardsilverstein/2013/11/04/another-israeli-drone-hacked-and-downed-this-time-by-hamas/ Israeli drone hacked by Hamas. Silversteins source: The Gaza militants didn’t shoot down the drone nor did it suffer a technical mishap. Instead, forces in Gaza took control of it by hacking the navigation system. This is the same method my source has claimed in the past has led to a rash of failures of Israeli drone vehicles in the northern sector. You’ll note that despite the fact that after past crashes flights were cancelled until the security breaches were fixed, that hasn’t stopped the hacks.
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