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Preventing the Development of Palestinian Natural Gas Resources in the Mediterranean Sea: Implications for Multinational Corporations Operating in Israel’s Gas Industry

This report documents how Israel has systematically prevented the occupied Palestinian population from developing their natural gas resources off the Gaza coast and the implications for complicit multinational corporations. In recent years large gas discoveries have been found off the coast of Israel including the Tamar and Leviathan fields. In order to develop and secure Israel’s gas platforms bordering Palestinian territorial waters and gas export pipelines running through Palestine’s continental shelf, Israel has inflicted a lethal naval closure of the Gaza Strip preventing Palestinian access to its Gaza Marine gas resources.

Divide and Conquer – A Legal Analysis of Israel’s 2014 offensive against the Gaza Strip

Between 8 July and 26 August 2014, Israel carried out a massive offensive against the occupied Gaza Strip, codenamed ‘Operation Protective Edge’. According to documentation jointly compiled by the Palestinian human rights organisations Al-Haq, Al Mezan, Aldameer and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, a total of 2,215 Palestinians, including 1,639 civilians of which 556 were children, were killed during the offensive. The report documents damage to 32,028 Palestinian residential houses and found that 43,503 Palestinian families, including 125,079 children, were affected by the destruction and damage to residential house and puts the offensive in the wider context of the occupation and an ongoing unlawful closure