Lebanon says it has US ‘guarantees’ on Israel border deal if Netanyahu wins
BEIRUT: Lebanon has secured “American guarantees” that its maritime border deal with Israel cannot be easily scrapped should Benjamin Netanyahu return to the Israeli premiership, Beirut’s chief negotiator said Wednesday.
Israel and Lebanon struck a US-brokered sea border agreement last month that opens up lucrative offshore gas fields for the neighbors that remain technically at war.
![Lebanese former President Michel Aoun receives from US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, the deal setting a maritime border between Lebanon and Israel in Beirut on Oct. 27, 2022. (AP/File)](https://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/2022/11/02/3522036-74667558.jpg)