An agreement on maritime border between Israel and Lebanon

Lebanon and Israel have reached a historic deal, brokered by USA, to end a long-running maritime border dispute in the gas-rich Mediterranean Sea.

The two countries declared overlapping boundaries in 2011 in the Mediterranean Sea.

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The draft agreement aims to settle Israel and Lebanon’s competing claims over offshore gas fields in the region.

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The agreement sets a border between the maritime waters of Lebanon and Israel for the first time.

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Lebanon recognised Israel's existing control of a 3-mile-wide stretch of water closest to their shared coast.

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Israel allowed Lebanon the right to drill in a previously contested gas field that stretches between the Israeli and Lebanese economic zones.

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The agreement does not touch on the shared land border between Israel and Lebanon.

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