{"id":97134,"date":"2022-08-02T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=97134"},"modified":"2022-08-01T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:39:21","slug":"07-09-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=97134","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah Threatens Gas Field Off Israeli Coast as US Envoy Arrives in Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Hezbollah Threatens Gas Field Off Israeli Coast as US Envoy Arrives in Beirut<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An Israeli military observation tower overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and part of the maritime border with Lebanon, is seen near Rosh Hanikra, in northern Israel October 13, 2020. REUTERS\/Ammar Awad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah broadcast a clip threatening a Mediterranean gas field off the Israeli coast on Sunday, as an American envoy traveled to Beirut to discuss maritime boundary negotiations with Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hezbollah clip features<\/a> apparent footage of vessels at Karish \u2014 an offshore gas field that Israel has said is firmly within its exclusive economic zone, and which Lebanon maintains is in disputed waters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vessels in the video, including an FPSO platform that arrived in Israel in June, are overlaid with crosshairs and coordinates.<\/span><\/p>\n

The clip also offers a glimpse of a missile identified<\/a> by Israeli media as the \u201cNoor,\u201d a long-range anti-ship cruise missile produced by Iran as a variant of the Chinese-made C-802.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has supplied anti-ship and coastal defense cruise missiles to Hezbollah and Houthi militants in Yemen, with the latter deploying them against American and Emirati ships in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Hezbollah struck an Israeli Navy corvette in 2006 with what was likely a C-802 missile, killing four crew members.<\/span><\/p>\n

The clip concludes after a minute and 16 seconds with the words \u201cwithin range\u201d in Hebrew and Arabic. It was shared on the Hezbollah-owned TV station Al-Manar<\/em> on the same day that the US State Department\u2019s senior advisor for energy security, Amos Hochstein, traveled to Beirut.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hochstein has been facilitating negotiations between Israel and Lebanon to delineate a maritime border and end tensions over offshore energy assets. Israel recently presented<\/a> Hochstein with a proposal for the boundary, according to local media, with Energy Minister Karine Elharrar calling it \u201ca serious offer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe Truzman, a research analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that with Sunday\u2019s video, \u201cHezbollah is sending a message to Israel and companies working with it that it can target the disputed gas field if a deal is not made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hezbollah has repeatedly threatened Israel over the maritime issue, and sent several drones towards the Karish gas field that were intercepted<\/a> by the Israeli military earlier this month. Weeks later, the Israeli military downed<\/a> a drone that crossed into its territory from Lebanon, saying it \u201clikely belongs\u201d to Hezbollah.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following day, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah claimed<\/a> there \u201cwill be no oil extraction across the Israeli entity if Lebanon does not obtain its rights.\u201d He said the Iran-backed group is \u201cescalating our rhetoric\u201d to pressure the Israelis and Americans, as \u201cthe course of the collapse in Lebanon\u201d \u2014 which is in the midst of a severe economic crisis \u2014 is \u201ccontinuing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Commercial production is slated to begin in Karish in September. It is expected to fulfill about half of Israel\u2019s natural gas demand and enable an increase in exports to Egypt and Jordan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hezbollah Threatens Gas Field Off Israeli Coast as US Envoy Arrives in Beirut Algemeiner Staff An Israeli military observation tower overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and part of the maritime border with Lebanon, is seen near Rosh Hanikra, in northern Israel October 13, 2020. REUTERS\/Ammar Awad The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah broadcast a clip threatening a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97155,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97134\/revisions\/97155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}