activity attracted regional international and internal palestinian attention. that. they have. been that. the. heck a. paper that. to develop their gas feed the palestinian authority decided to do an exclusive deal with the british guess. 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 rami abdo why he thought the palestinian authority decided to do the british gas deal.

see that and walk in on that. cannot be and yet the word. yet if we're not home to him where. he was on and her and looked up with. my father started. the project known as gaza marine took this unusual do action right to from the start what's more it emerged that in public it's made him miss how was told to negotiate with the british gas but behind the scenes other palestinian authority members were holding separate secret negotiations with the same company but under different conditions. that was clear. that i had no going back then the friend. that we had but i

did home message yet for now we go forward i like to have a. while back and no yanni who would get there. well before. they had a shot at all or whatever up above but. on the 19th of october 1909 the palestinian authority that be a signed a contract with the british gas. but the deal terms it contained for all 4 signatories were quite controversial. the contract said that the british guys would receive 60 percent of the guys that even use verb the consider that it contractors companies would get 30 percent above the the palestine investment fund would get only 10 percent.

the palestinian authority also give the developers exclusive frights for the discovery ration and marketing of the oil and gas in the gaza offshore area. what the 3 got further can 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 a mussy then minister of economy and trade and how to be some sort of in a chairman. of the palestinian petroleum with 30. i don't. act. i

called both model muscly and had to be some sort to ask for more details. but. we did send text message but unfortunately he didn't reply. well not one out of. 1. 100 plus what. some call for. a letter that sort of for the. main.

role. in a government of how loud it british gas is now owned by real dutch and asked them to comment on the negotiations and contract with the b. 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 interest 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 the married. woman at the had that are. with the poppy and i think. the. layout of shape. was out of the because of the will assess. the letter for it was about beheaded by them or. might have he said. some of the men had they had their mentors are young and had that particular says that i'm a sailor instead of mohamed morsi. 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 close 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'd informed of their activities. giving me 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 rushy does now a close ally of the deposed leader mohammed helen 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 if really between me and. i asked her i mean abdul both mohammed rashid 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 but the earth use a lot of color for 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 an honor to have that and. i said betsy a c.e.o. has so much of a lot of you know how deep and well how the facade how p.t. what and that was so what in the other left that the that what hurt them how mother

she had left what and they want to cut the deficit but for us the new year when a woman either and at the end of a lot of you also get 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 you. 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 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 if it is from it considered a pretty elusive place of course we have it differently electing one aircraft how to. shop for us to any other. very select the solving of what we want we have a little economic repeating it difficult year in an animal yet don't keep a list of can must can you spot and you. can even in the media. with callao off well come on in italy. after 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. that was

336 kilometers off shore gaza gaza city. in water depth of 650 meters was to develop a subsidy but when pipeline. to ask along is there any way there is an area of a lot of very large area. british girls plan to do a gust didn't facility in ashkelon and the field could have been remotely controlled. gas is measured in d.c. and billions a few cubic meters it is important to know that. forward. cannot be clean viable development of a marine a market of for at least 2 p.c.m. period should be. should be developed so because otherwise. there was no thoughts 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 c.m. of perspective power station in jenin in other words. 0 point one c.m. for a power station in gaza altogether it can sum up to about one b.c. and of so the market for this gaza is basically is. 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 the prime minister and the next few years so there's really palestinian relationship deteriorate badly the peace process is stalled completely. but the guys the 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 tree 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 he or she does if 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 gaza he actually risked his life to negotiate with be honest 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 extremist in the arab world in the palestinian world and he did whatever he could in order to develop.

but it's good eliza's how sensitive this whole subject is for palestinians. we said that we had it right to speak to us from a show where mohammed and other to be a figure as mother they had all refused to be interviewed i think they're free fall from extremists that would do. us both to expose the story and i think they are afraid. after 7 the rounds of secret negotiations israel and that be a reach an initial deal guess for electricity. i reached a deal with the policy or authority of them mind you at that time goes i was ruled by fatah not by hamas 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 literacy 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 realised the deal with israel would not be easy. in 2003 a british announced that israel was not the only player of the table and that it was also talking to egypt about the transporting gaza from gaza through its ports.

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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 jazeera arabic 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 guys to try to do a deal with egypt to distribute the gaza gus via pipelines. not knowing that egypt was doing a separate deal to sell its own guys to israel be 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 that at 1st place. mobile it was a little basil for us leni. a sort of if not heard here allow really on many of the fold of can with. masai possibly it is as they are south of the e.u. and in general you saw even one who are more for him feel very can look at mumbai

that often as the new obama not offered only in one at the will by my candour i'll be more plain jamelia pulls the advisor from asli electorate or with area letters but the. habis a lot of telegraphs but we're happy. to mystify them and. it was now that the british guys and the be 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 have something you know 18 years following is that discovery in this field was not discovered. a minute in the wall or was this is the will of the world but you can pick him up for the meeting. in january 2006 and a sharon 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 b. . but how mass refused and israel and egypt and both sanctions on the peace in the west bank and gaza. and 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 guess the. law. even was that.

and. more do they. also have a year ready. were you could go. along with. the palestinian unity government ended in a split in the in june 2007 and how must took full control of gaza. and israel you would 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 are 6. 3 percent share of revenue under its deal with the p.a. but was not it extracting any gas and israel had no plan. of the gas field you almost irish talks with the british gas for the u.k. government under tony blair. but 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 with their u.k. government by an organization i think tank called a shop aca which is a palestinian 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 the past. about $2.00 per hour and then b.t.u. 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 destruction said israel put on. with the change of government in egypt in 22 all its borders with gaza would open this enabled how must reform its 2nd government and revisit the gaza guys project. these pictures which are made public for the 1st time. in 22 by

a local gaza company attacks applauding the guys feet using the list of liberty 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 in new gas fields of gas but this was why this really blockade of the 30 was tightening

ringback. almost all the. rubbish. story. 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 but. the weather has not gotten of a lot of you know just local to the internet and to those who are that was young you couldn't she couldn't afford for so her know her you know how are.

the caribbean me. most wonderful for me automated well as officially the only one. in a couple of our cause she didn't. hurt at all of course we. had filled his love so. these attempts only lasted for a few months as israel and egypt tightened the blockade on gaza even further. a mother teresa. the man had the worst going to theatres than. going to put on the. iraq war. 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 very. early. 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 i asked then you are caught 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 in 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. it we have. a new team is. going to.