Pillaging Palestine’s gas? EU in danger of complicity in resource grab | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/would-proposed-israel-europe-pipeline-bring-pillaged-palestinian-gas-
An American energy firm, contracted by the Israeli government to develop Israel’s offshore gas reserves, has been accused of potentially “pillaging” from gas reserves inside the Palestinian territories.
The revelations emerge just one month after Israeli and European Union officials agreed plans to develop a huge 2,200 kilometre undersea gas pipeline. The “EastMed” pipeline would transport Israeli gas to Greece and Italy, where it could then be transported to Europe.
The plans, one of 195 energy infrastructure “projects of common interest” being assessed by the European Commission, could see the pipeline carrying Israeli gas to Europe by 2025.
Some of this gas could include resources stolen from Palestinian waters. That is the suggestion of a new report published in May by SOMO, a Dutch human rights organisation which is funded by the European Commission and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
▻https://www.somo.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Beneath-troubled-waters.pdf
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