in a world. of money. regional international and internal palestinian attention. that. they have. been that. the. heck a. paper that that. to develop the guys feed the palestinian authority decided to do an exclusive deal with the british gas. it would have been normal business a practice to invite international tenders to encourage competition and to get the best deal for gaza and the palestinians. say. i asked why he thought the palestinian authority decided to do the british gas deal. see

that and walk in on that. kind of talk in orbit and yet the word. yet if we're not home to him. while he was on and her and looked up with. my own father started. the project known as girls a marine took this unusual do diction right to from the start what's more it emerged that in public it's made him miss how. to negotiate with the british guests . but behind the scenes other palestinian authority members were holding separate secret negotiations with the same company but under different conditions. that i had in no going back then the friend. that we have

been home message yes for now we go forward i like they have. their new york who would get. well before. they have a shot at all or. on the 19th of october 1909 the palestinian authority there be a signed a contract with the british gas. but the deal terms it contain for all 4 signatories were quite controversial. the contract said that the british guys would receive 60 percent of the guys that even use verver consider that it contractors companies would get 30 percent but verver palestine investment fund would get only 10 percent.

the palestinian authority also give the developers exclusive frights for the discovery. and marketing of the oil and gas in the gaza offshore area. what the 3 got further going to oversee was a very close. which said that the palestinians were obliged to inform israel of any oil and gas exploration and production in the palestinian territories. this contract was never submitted to the palestinian is just left of council or published in local newspapers. but yasser arafat signed the contract. as did my head of mussy then minister of economy and iterate and how to be some sort of the new chairman of the palestinian petroleum authority. i don't. act. which is either that or i

called both model muscly and had to be some sort to ask for more details. but. we did send a text message but unfortunately he didn't reply. with x. on the bus what. sort of. a letter would that sort of. mean.

in a moment of how loud it british gas is now owned by israel dutch and asked them to comment on the negotiations and contract with the b a. this is the chill could not advice on our questions above that in 2018 it had reached an agreement with the palestine investment fund the p.i.a.f. to divest its entire interests and operate a ship in the gaza marine license offshore palestine. then you are called has been working at the middle east since to 2014 when i was working on this investigation 2015 the palestinian authority didn't seem to want to talk to me about this topic and i called up several different places i called up the palestinian vestment fund and i tried to figure out who was in charge of this file even i i had trouble even finding out who was in charge of the gas strategy my sense of why they didn't want

to talk to me as a couple of sources told me this this topic is very sensitive you know it's very touchy don't touch it nobody's going to want to talk to you about it. but. over the course of reporting the story i didn't really get the sense that actually it was it was sensitive it was more that i don't think anybody actually knew what the strategy was and therefore nobody wanted to take responsibility on the record for what they were or weren't doing in relation to you as a married. woman at the had that i. did with the poppy and i think. the. layout of shape. was out of the because of the war on. bobby let alone show for it was that our beheading. might have be said. that all of the men had a detrimental young and had. a say hello mr muhammad are seen.

about wall to her. this is my mother she also known as her. his name is in the british gas contract as the only representative of the palestinian authority. this is clause in the contract says that rashid who was the economic adviser to yasser arafat was the only person who could act on behalf of the palestinian authority on anything relating to the guys agreement for the duration of the contract. the developers were also blushed to cuba she didn't formed of their activities. given more how mother she the ex occlusal fry to handle everything in the contract was controversial. there'd be a accuses him of wasting millions of dollars money laundering and him busy link public funds while he was head of the palestine investment fund and if then the

fact the political party means that the she does know a close ally of the deposed leader mohammed dahlan who lives in abu dhabi. in february 29000 the arab interior minister's council issued an international arrest warrant for mohammed the sheet but he still moves it freely between me and. i asked her i mean abdul both mohamed nasheed and the split in fact. there are number you know what i have them her mother she had another world that's none of her mother's she bought the a fuselage at the golf course they had that and i feel that a lady had what i have. left but you know what a birth. and i don't have the level of all that had that and. i said betsy a c.e.o. has so much of a lot of you know how do you and will i have that facade how p.t. what and that was so what in the other left that the that the one i had gotten her

mother she had left work and then i cut the deficit but for us the new year when a woman neighbor and at the end of the lot of you was that a lot of. english or try to conduct muhammad rashid inviting him to respond to the allegations made by the palestinian authority it during his time in charge of the palestine investment fund. she didn't reply to our message. however he did the response to the arabic version of this phone on a palestinian news website. he denied what he called the false allegations made by a. he said. i challenge anyone to prove there was a new corruption that guys are going to deal i was the negotiator and no one else of a concert at the palestinian governments and their international organizations couldn't find a single corruption point and the deal. israel was not

a signatory to the contract but seems to have been defeated from it considered are pretty elusive unless of course we have it differently electing one aircraft how to . sharpen for us to any other. very select the solving of what we want we have a little economic repeating it difficult year in animal yet keep a list shelf and yet it must can you spot and you. can even. hear me a philistine your heart is sore with callao off well i'll call an inability. for the contract was signed there were negotiations between a british guys and israel about buying gaza from the gaza marine project. israeli guys and energy expert i meet more was among those who advised the israeli government over 30 projects to develop gaza marine that was

336 kilometers offshore gaza gaza city. in what the death of 650 metres was to develop a subsidy but when pipeline. to ask along is there any there is an area of a lot of very large area. british girls plan to do a gust treatment facility in ashkelon and they feel it could have been remotely controlled for. gas is measured in d.c. and billions of a cubic meters it is important to no. forward. viable development of. the market to for at least 2 b.c.m. period should be. should be developed so because otherwise. there was no thought such economic the ability to develop this field know such a market does not exist in the palestinian authority the market even. today the

palestinian authority is very very small very very limited maybe half a b.c.m. of perspective power station engineering in other words. 0 point one p.c.m. for a power station in gaza all together it can sum up to about one b.c. and of so the market for this gas is basically in israel. on the 27th of september 2000 palestinian a president yasser arafat gave the green light for drilling to start of the gaza cost. the next day the right wing israeli politician ariel sharon's approve accretive visit to the aqsa mosque compound it triggered violence which he quickly lit to the 2nd intifada. 5 months later sharon

was elected a prime minister and the next few years so the israeli palestinian relationship deteriorate badly the peace process stalled completely. but the gears of continued behind closed doors. the palestinian the regime minister as a michele one held secret talks with his israeli counterparts just if but it's. a show as currently chairman of the palace then when a 3 authority. i tried to contact him but he refused to talk about his role in gaza money. and he was not and. all the palestinians i contacted whose names came up in research into the gaza marina project declined to be interviewed for this approach. however we did manage to speak to the

former israeli minister of infrastructure and then the regime does it but it's clear he spoke about his secret negotiations with as. i had big ocean asians with mr us on the show or from the family from the tribe a show of very prominent known in the us he actually risked his life to negotiate with me honestly at the high base of the intifada he came to jerusalem east jerusalem but then at least we consider it as one city to negotiate with me and to keep on developing the field because he thought that it was good politically for him i'm telling you he risked his life i have no doubt i i was know it for effect because we have to guard him not from us from extremists in the arab world in the palestinian world and he did whatever he could do you know order to develop.

but it's good allies is how sensitive this whole subject is for palestinians. we said that we had to try to speak to as a michelle woman. and other to be a figure as mother they had all refused to be interviewed i think their free fall from extremists that would do exterminator was to expose the story i think they are afraid. after 7 the rounds of secret negotiations israel and the be a reach an initial deal guess for electricity. i reached a deal with the palestinian authority mind you at that time goes i was ruled by fatah not buy from us and i reached a deal with them that we the israeli we shall not pay money for the gas to them we shall use their share a to reduce the debt they owed the israeli electric company they

owed a lot of money i think they still do but. for delivery of electricity and b. what we will do is we shall build a substation near the border of gaza and against the gas will supply electricity. there be a agree to the israeli temps even though they didn't favor the palestinians after all the guys was in their waters but sharon rejected the deal because the palestinians he claimed might use that even you to support what he called terrorism . the british guys realized the deal with israelis would not be easy. in 2003 a british guys announced that israel was love the only player of the table and that it was also talking to egypt about the transport in gaza from gaza through its

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routinely blamed western powers those are your top stories back to al-jazeera world the news hour in about 30 minutes. in 1900 yards was discovered in the eastern mediterranean of the coast of gaza. the palestinian authority there be a signed a contract with the british gas for the company to exploit and sell the gas in a project called gaza money. i'm thomas how to fill out a pic and i'm asking why this gas has not been exploited for 20 years and why the subject has hardly had any international coverage. one possible market for the guys was israel but the prime minister ariel sharon it looked the deal because he was

concerned about the palestinians making it even you out of it. vinod to go to more complicated. a british gaza try to do a deal with egypt to distribute the gaza gas via pipelines. not knowing that egypt was doing a separate deal to sell its own guys to israel v in gyptian deal quote unquote was presented as a one time deal the prices were very low and the quantities were actually unlimited which was. looked unrealistic at at 1st place. mobile it was a little basil for us leni. if not heard here allow really on many of the fold of can with even masai was leading to as they are south of the e.u. and in general you saw even one home for him feel very can look at mumbai the

office the new obama not offered only in one act the will bomb a candle i'll be more plain jamelia pulls the advance of philistine electors of with area leaders but they. i miss a lot of telegraphs but we're happy. to mystify them and. it was now that the british guys and the v.a. realized that they had gas that they couldn't sell. if you don't have as long as you don't have markets for these guys so the value of these guards is nearly is almost 0 and the fact is that we are sitting you know 18 years following their discovery in this field was not discovered. a minute in the wall or was this is that a little bit of what you can pick him up for the people. in january 2006 and a shot on suffered a stroke and went into a coma. you would almost became acting israeli prime minister.

meanwhile i must warn the palestinian legislative council elections and form the government this complicated things on the international stage. how mass was asked to recognize the state of israel and all the peace deals done by the. but how mass refused and israel and egypt and both sanctions on the peace in the west bank and gaza. the. use of elements there was a previously a palestinian unity government in gaza and the east back from march to june 2007. use a film and see was communications minister and i asked him if he was told about the gears the. law. that.

and then. more to the. saphir ready. were you could know. the palestinian unity government ended in a split in the in june 2007 and how mass took full control of gaza. and israel huge almost popularity fell as israeli prime minister but on the gaza front he decided to hold his own negotiations with the british gas without any involvement of the palestinian authority. in the u.k. british guys was experiencing its only frustration with the gaza project it was

entitle to a 60 percent share of revenue under its deal with the p.a. but was not it extracting any gas and israel had no ban. of the gas field almost irish talks with the british gas via the u.k. government under tony blair. well the talks failed and the british gaza closed down its offices in israel. when the british and us thought it says that israel has the palestinians to run some have been on the gaza many universes that would have meant there was a freedom of information act that was submitted within their u.k. government by an organization i think tank called a shop aca which is a palestinian a virtual think tank the freedom of information documents that have come out actually showed that israel had commercial reasons and it said that they would not

allow palestinians to access their resources until the palestinians can guarantee that they would sell gas to israel at about a 3rd of the price of the gas on the international markets so they were essentially seeking or trying to force a person about $2.00 per hour and then be to you rather than $65.00 to $7.00 which is where was the price of gas at the time and for b.g. which is a private company that wouldn't have been profitable so essentially there was no commercial. viability for the project anymore because of the restrictions that israel put on. with a change of government in egypt in 22 of its borders with gaza would open this enabled how must reform its 2nd government and revisit the gaza gaza project. these pictures which are made public for the 1st time. in 22 by

a local gaza company attacks applauding the guy's feet using the list of liberal myth of technology. divers spotted these bubbles under the sea but. they believed they were from the gas field so samples were taken for further examination. he was involved in this a project and says that the local company got hold of maps and other data about possible new guys feats of gas but this was why this really gyptian blockade of the 30 was tightening

ringback. almost all the. rubbish. story in. the. autumn a can. with an impact and. this was the equipment used to try and tap into the gas field. services just say that gas lay at around 600 meters below the sea backed. by the energy has no more power than of a thought of you know just local to the internet and to those she didn't know before that was he. couldn't she couldn't afford her so her know her with her he had no how or. not so in. the

caribbean. many emitted it was the most wonderful for me automated well as officially the only one. in a couple of hours. could it hurt at all of course we. had for his nerves. these attempts only lasted for a few months as israel and egypt tightened the blockade on gaza even further. at the mother teresa. the man had the worst going to theatres than a. counterpart on the. iraq war. feel for what i have

a tosser you can to the bunch of the homeowner. brother nor that an affair and. that look in her can. witness what not only. look in how they learn. the matter and no. more recent research suggests that the number of gas fields and the quantity of gas in the gaza field could be greater than the official figures. as to. us than our cause if she thought there might be more fields than those in the original gaza marina project. so you're asking is it only the 2 hours yet no it's possible there could be many other wells i've read and places from experts that it could be up to $88.00 wells and the pattern is that the area can't be

explored at this point given the the limits that the israelis put on the maritime territory for the palestinians. looked at ibrahim's safe is a former jordanian minister for energy and mineral resources. he was a member of the official team that held talks with the palestinian authority about buying and importing into jordan. in the head with fear i asked him if he thought there were more gas fields waiting to be discovered because it can really afford the time allotment we have. a new team is. plagiarism and i like to show. you love so much a matter with an egypt when the bill doesn't. exist we have

a few months of life to me how do you feel should it get out of here. because. i'll have. to feel it was the 2nd or. so you know not there are at least 8 gas fields of gaza but no one knows the exact number. israel currently takes all the guys available and the international community appears to take no action. there is evidence that by 2012 israel extract its 42000000000 cubic meters from the muddy p. fields leaving it severely depleted that would have supplied the palestinians with enough gas for 15 years in mid 2017.