Mousa Abu Marzouq, one of the leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement HAMAS and the Head of the International Foreign Relations Office of the movement, answered the questions of the press members at the meeting titled "Palestine's Place in the Future of the Middle East" in Istanbul.
Abu Marzouq also evaluated the normalization between the Israeli regime and Türkiye.
"We are against relations with Israel in principle. As for the gas issue, gas is our gas. There is gas stolen and usurped by Israel," Abu Marzouq said.
For years, the Israeli regime has been seizing Palestine's Leviathan and Tamar natural gas fields, which have 2,200 billion cubic meters of natural gas deposits, and liquefying them and exporting them to Europe.
“WE DO NOT ACCEPT ANY RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL”
"President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Israeli regime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the UN Summit held in New York recently. During the meeting, the issue of exporting Palestinian gas seized by Israel to Europe was also discussed. How do you evaluate this situation?"
Abu Marzouq stated that they do not accept any relations with Israel and noted that there will be no such thing as Israel in the future.
“THE GAS ISOUR GAS”
Abu Marzouq, who evaluated the talks between the Israeli regime and Türkiye, said, "We are against relations with Israel in principle. As for the gas issue, gas is our gas. There is gas stolen and usurped by Israel. There are large resources off the coast of Gaza."
Abu Marzouq also stated that the gas agreement between Turkey and Israel was requested by the USA. Abu Marzouq based his opinion on the fact that the Russia-Ukraine War created a gas deficit in the EU.
“ISRAELI REGIME USURPING AND SELLING GAS FROM PALESTINES FOR YEARS”
The Israeli regime has been carrying out natural gas exploration in Palestine and the Mediterranean for years. Israel, which seized the Leviathan and Tamar natural gas fields, which have 2,200 billion cubic meters of natural gas deposits belonging to Palestine, started selling natural gas to Jordan and Egypt in 2020, and some of the gas from Israel was liquefied in Egypt and exported to Europe. had been done.
ISRAEL WANTS TO SELL THE NATURAL GAS TO EUROPE VIA TÜRKİYE
It is known that the final goal of Zionist Israel, which has been extracting the natural gas belonging to the Palestinians and selling it by liquefying it since 2020, is to sell the gas it seized to Europe via Turkey.
Milli Gazete had previously kept the issue on the agenda with many headlines such as "Israel usurped it, took it out and sold it".