Netanyahu said: “Lapid surrendered in a shameful way to Hassan Nasrallah’s threats, and he is giving Hezbollah a sovereign area belonging to Israel with a huge gas field that belongs to you, the citizens of Israel, and he does this without a session in the Knesset or a public referendum.”
And he added, in a tweet he posted on his official Twitter account, “Lapid is not authorized to give an enemy country sovereign space and sovereign property that belongs to all of us, and if this illegal trick is passed, it will not be binding on us.”
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz responded to Netanyahu with a tweet, in which he also said, “Bibi, don’t bother me…only irresponsible political considerations lead you. We will continue to look after the political, security and economic interests of the State of Israel in a responsible manner.”
Netanyahu’s statement came shortly after Yair Lapid’s statements, in which he said that Tel Aviv does not mind developing an additional Lebanese gas field, in return for obtaining its financial share from it.
At the opening of the weekly session of the Israeli government on the agreement on the maritime border with Lebanon, Lapid pointed out that his government is conducting a final review of the agreement with Lebanon from a legal point of view, provided that the agreement will be presented after that.
At the beginning of the weekly government session, the Israeli Prime Minister indicated that the provisions of the agreement preserve Israel’s interests and will enhance its security and economy.
“We are deliberating on the last details,” Lapid said. “It cannot be said that a final agreement has been reached, but as we have requested since the first day, the agreement preserves all security interests as well as economic interests.”
Lapid added that this agreement would enhance Israel’s security and economy, and said that the development of a Lebanese gas field would weaken the Lebanese connection with Iran, constrain Hezbollah and lead to stability in the region.
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