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The discovery of increasing volumes of natural gas at various locations in the Eastern Mediterranean presents opportunities to exploit a clean domestic energy resource and to reduce imports.

However, it also resurrects chronic regional political conflicts.

In the case of the Gaza Strip, the problem is that of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, and the attempt to maintain influence and pressure over the occupied Palestinian entity.

The geology of petroleum fields does not recognize political boundaries between states.

Under normal political conditions, diplomacy prevails to resolve these conflicts. This is not the case throughout the new petroleum province of the Eastern Mediterranean, which has seen the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, followed by the Israeli marine blockade on Gaza.

There have also been legal and financial demands by Israel that, so far, have made it impossible to develop Gaza gas resources.

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