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Israel's sitting on huge gas reserves that at least some of it most likely belongs to Palestine, but they probably won't see any of it. that probably has to factor somewhat into Israel keeping Gaza purposefully just above crisis , restricting their marine and airspace and targeting infrastructure, maybe they are driving them out slowly.
IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis theguardian.com
WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse Israel News | Haaretz
Israel Said It Would Keep Gaza Near Collapse: WikiLeaks
IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis theguardian.com
~Mark Turner, founder of the Research Journalism Initiative, reported that the siege of Gaza and ensuing military pressure was designed to "eliminate" Hamas as "a viable political entity in Gaza" to generate a "political climate" conducive to a gas deal. This involved rehabilitating the defeated Fatah as the dominant political player in the West Bank, and "leveraging political tensions between the two parties, arming forces loyal to Abbas and the selective resumption of financial aid."
Ya'alon's comments in 2007 illustrate that the Israeli cabinet is not just concerned about Hamas - but concerned that if Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
According to Anais Antreasyan in the University of California's Journal of Palestine Studies, the most respected English language journal devoted to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel's stranglehold over Gaza has been designed to make "Palestinian access to the Marine-1 and Marine-2 gas wells impossible." Israel's long-term goal "besides preventing the Palestinians from exploiting their own resources, is to integrate the gas fields off Gaza into the adjacent Israeli offshore installations." This is part of a wider strategy of:
".. separating the Palestinians from their land and natural resources in order to exploit them, and, as a consequence, blocking Palestinian economic development. Despite all formal agreements to the contrary, Israel continues to manage all the natural resources nominally under the jurisdiction of the PA, from land and water to maritime and hydrocarbon resources."
WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse Israel News | Haaretz
Israel Said It Would Keep Gaza Near Collapse: WikiLeaks
cable written by an American official, Israeli officials told American diplomats "on multiple occasions that they intend to keep Gaza's economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge."