Natural gas supplies from Israel to Egypt increased by 60% in November as conflicts in the Middle East decreased. The agency reports that Bloomberg He cited an Egyptian official.
According to him, supplies increased from 250 million cubic feet (about 7 million cubic meters) per day at the beginning of the month to 350-400 million cubic feet (9.9 – 11.3 million cubic meters) later. It is stated that the amount of supplies is half of what it was before Hamas’s attack on Israel in October.
According to Bloomberg, this trend is due to the decrease in tensions due to conflict in the region, as well as the resumption of work in the Tamar field in Israel by the oil and gas company Chevron.
Matthew Millet, Director of the US State Department Press Service statedThe American administration finds the statements of the Minister of Jerusalem and Israeli Heritage Amichai Eliyahu about a possible nuclear bombing of the Gaza Strip unacceptable.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. As part of the Israeli army’s ground operation on 5 November surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly political scientist named One of the reasons why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict flares up.
Source: Gazeta
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