@JulietaN25:
This is beyond evil.
@DistopianGirl:
Tony Blair must be rubbing his grubby little hands with glee.
@sorornishi:
It’s called stealing.
It’s illegal.
Nothing to boast about.
@mu10724914:
The title should “…. Helps Israel steal gas’ from Palestine’s water “
@swts2020:
Do you mean STEAL ?? I mean that is what all the killing is for ; the land, Gas and Oil
@Fahadi90277257:
These firms should face international sanctions for stealing resource belonging to a Palestinians
@samcro1882:
Thieving greedy murdering bastards! #AparthiedIsrael
@DavidFMills:
IIRC the term of art for the expropriation of Natural Resources by a “Belligerent Occupier” under Article 147 of the Geneva Conventions is “Looting”, which is a War Crime. The company in question opens itself up to both International and UK Civil and Criminal liabilities.
@SeanLlangynidr:
Helps ‘Israel’ extract gas from ‘Palestinian’ waters.
I take it the genocidal, apartheid settler-colony will not be handing over the proceeds of the extracted gas to the Palestinians.
@EveGranta:
Thieves
@esaintc:
Stealing Palestine’s resources! How can this be allowed to continue in 2025???
@13orangesbc:
What did Netanyahu do to a Gaza-less map of the Middle East at UN HQ in NYC in September 2023?
What is Gaza 2035, announced by Netanyahu in the last year?
Is this why Gaza has been flattened?
Or are these just coincidences…
@thymitchh:
Palestinians lose resources from their own waters while companies and governments cash in. This is exploitation at its worst.
EXCLUSIVE Aberdeen-based oil firm ‘helping Israel extract Palestinian gas’ by James Walker, Nov 2, 2025, The National
The gas fields off the coast of Gaza could be worth billions of pounds (Image: Damian Shields)
A SCOTTISH-based oil firm has been condemned for working with Israel to extract gas from Palestinian waters.
Dana Petroleum, which is owned by the Korean National Oil Corporation (KNOC) but is headquartered in Aberdeen, was one of several companies granted licences by Israel to explore the gas-rich seabed off Gaza’s coast just weeks after it began bombing the strip following the October 7 attacks.
Netanyahu granted licences also before Oct 7, 2023
The move has sparked outrage among human rights groups and climate campaigners in Scotland, who say the firm could be profiting from Israel’s illegal occupation and ongoing assault on Gaza.
Palestinian organisations, meanwhile, have also warned that it could constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.
Over the past 15 years, major natural gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean have transformed former importers like Egypt and Israel into exporters.
However, Palestinians have been essentially excluded from this boom. They remain unable to develop their own offshore gas field — discovered off Gaza’s coast in 1999.
Michael Barron, the author of a book on Palestine’s untapped gas reserves, has recently suggested the field could generate £3 billion in revenue at current prices.
But, on October 29 2023 – amidst Israel’s brutal military offensive against Gaza which a UN committee and genocide scholars have described as a genocide – the Israeli ministry of energy announced that it had awarded licenses to six Israeli and international companies to explore for natural gas, including Aberdeen-based Dana.
Palestinian NGOs, however, have noted that much of the area covered by the Israeli licences lies within maritime boundaries declared by the Palestinian Authority in 2015 under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Oslo Accords, which together provide the international legal framework for marine and maritime activities.
The map of the area claimed by the Palestinian Authority (Image: United Nations/State of Palestine documentation)
In 2019, the Palestinian Authority also submitted full coordinates and maps of the area (above) to the United Nations.
Despite this, Israel — which is not a party to UNCLOS — has argued that because it does not recognise Palestine as a sovereign state, the Palestinian Authority has no legal authority to declare maritime boundaries or claim ownership of the waters.Israel doesn’t even permit Palestinians to fish for food in waters Palestinians own; the vile Zionist world allows Israel to get away with these endless crimes.
Palestinian human rights organisations — including Al-Haq, Al Mezan, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and Adalah — say that more than half of the areas covered by Israel’s tender encroach on the boundaries submitted by Palestine in 2019.
Lawyers representing Al-Haq, PCHR, and Al-Mezan wrote to Dana Petroleum and the other firms involved in February 2024, warning they would “use all legal mechanisms to the fullest extent” if the companies proceed with any exploration or extraction activities.
They also urged the firms to immediately withdraw from all projects related to the Israeli-issued licences and warned that Israel’s concessions to foreign companies could constitute violations of international humanitarian law.
Now, Scottish activists have called for an immediate end to Dana Petroleum’s involvement in the project, accusing the company of aiding and abetting human rights abuses.
“Dana Petroleum is clearly complicit in facilitating and normalising the exploration, extraction, and export of Israeli fossil fuels,” said Dave Black, Energy Apartheid campaign lead for the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
“This means providing legitimacy and material support to the Israeli state and its grave violations of international law — at a time when Israel faces proceedings in several international court cases, including for genocide in Gaza, where over 67,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023.”
The controversy has also provoked anger in South Korea, where civil society organisations have condemned the involvement of KNOC, Dana’s parent company.
“Given South Korea’s painful and abhorrent history of colonisation, it is abhorrent to see a public Korean company be directly implicated in Israel’s war crimes,” said Bora Noon, a spokesperson for Urgent Action by South Korean Civil Society in Solidarity with Palestine.
“We strongly condemn both KNOC and the South Korean government, and demand that they stop their colonial looting of Palestine’s waters,” Noon added.
Environmental activists in Aberdeen — Dana’s home city (offices above) — have also joined calls for the firm to withdraw from the deal.
“Along with Friends of the Earth national groups in Palestine and South Korea, we’re calling on Dana Petroleum to step back from its deal with the Israeli government to extract gas only 17 miles off the coast of Gaza,” said Scott Herrett, an Aberdeen-based organiser for Friends of the Earth Scotland.
“Energy has been used as a tool of occupation against Palestinians for decades, with Israel limiting imports resulting in very high prices. Cutting off electricity supplies has been a tactic used against civilians since 2023. Now the Israeli government is profiting from gas licences in Palestinian waters,” Herrett added.
He also appealed directly to Dana’s staff in Aberdeen: “I call upon fellow Aberdonians working for Dana Petroleum to put pressure on their bosses to pull out of the deal. Most people would agree that it is deeply unjust for an external government to make decisions about what happens with the resources of another nation. That would be bad enough, but the moral imperative is even greater given that same government is responsible for killing over 70,000 men, women and children in the last few years.”
The Scottish Greens also condemned Dana Petroleum, saying that no company in Scotland should be involved with the “war criminal regime” in Israel.
“Especially when their business involves illegally drilling for fossil fuels in Palestinian waters,” MSP Patrick Harvie said.
“Just as with Russia, the Scottish Government should be encouraging all businesses to cease trading with Israel until the illegal occupation of Palestine ends, and those who have committed war crimes are held to account.”
He added: “For years, the Scottish Greens have called on the SNP to issue this advice, we’ve urged them to sanction companies operating in the illegal West Bank settlements, but they’ve yet to move.
“Thankfully, last month, they backed a Scottish Greens motion in Parliament to boycott Israel; now they must meet their words with action and call on all businesses based in Scotland to stop doing business with this genocidal regime. Those who refuse and continue to profit from the occupation of Palestine should face robust sanctions and boycotts.”
Dana Petroleum has been approached for comment.
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1945 Oilfields in the Middle East:
1945 oilfields concessions in the Middle East, including Palestine
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@AdameMedia:
US and Israel are preparing new attacks in Iraq and the region
Pete Hegseth threatened Iraq not to retaliate – Iraq’s Defense Minister, Thabit al-Abbasi says.
America won’t feed its starving or heal it’s sick but it always has more money to kill for lsrael.
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NEW: Cuba’s Foreign Ministry says the US seeks to overthrow the constitutional government of Venezuela and establish a servile government willing to surrender Venezuela’s oil, key natural resources, & national sovereignty to the United States.
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@gaiye84863:
America is after oil, they try to overthrow anyone who has oil and is not a puppet for them.
None of the stories I have read have explored which international body, if any, can stop this extrajudicial slaughter in international waters.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u…
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition @SolidarityNican Oct 13, 2025:
Complete statement is here: https://nicasolidarity.com/newsletter/statement-2025-stop-us-aggression-against-venezuela
WE DEMAND AN END TO U.S. AGGRESSION AGAINST VENEZUELA.
We demand an end to US impunity and the withdrawal of US troops and war materiel from the Caribbean before the situation escalates any further. We vehemently object to the deployment of nuclear capable vessels in a region which declared itself a nuclear-free zone in 1967. We demand respect for international law and the sovereignty of nations. The people of Venezuela must be allowed to live in peace with the form of government they have chosen.
@regnaultrussian:
La Vida Boheme.
@Whtapl:
Latin America needs to Unite for Peace, strength in numbers.
And this year’s “Peace” prize just lied again for Trump, says his murdering Venezuelans in boats is “saving lives” and that Hamas is now located in Venezuela to justify invading. FFS Take her fucking “prize” away.
@DropSiteNews:
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado welcomes U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela and the extrajudicial killing of Venezuelans at sea, insisting the strikes “are about saving lives.” Speaking to Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain, she also claims that Hamas, the Palestinian armed resistance group, is now located in Venezuela.
Machado says the deaths are Maduro’s responsibility, not America’s, saying the regime “was warned what not to do.”
When asked if she supports U.S. strikes on Venezuelan territory, Machado replies:
“The escalation is the only way to force Maduro to understand it’s time to go.”
@meshmohem1:
Can we like not call her Nobel prize winner? They can give her the award but we don’t have to honor it. She’s a fraud and the entire committee that chose her are frauds
@DrSakriKaia:
Hamas has never in its existence operated outside of Palestine. It’s a Palestinian movement. The Palestinian diaspora is significant however any existence of Palestinians in Venezuela is minuscule at best
She is a Zionist propagandist spewing disinformation as she is a power puppet to the Israeli lobby with enormous U.S. support
@Scagz89:
“Hamas is hiding in that Venezuela”
@corpheart1:
She is now one of the top ppl spreading misinformation. Their new excuse to bomb Venezuela for Hamas is even more ridiculous than the drug one.
@GotPropaganda:
She must be tried for treason and citizenship revoked.
@SuperSpacedad:
This lady is a white supremacist psycho who wants to ruthlessly slaughter and ethnically cleanse nonwhites in Latin America. That she got a Nobel peace price is an insult to humanity.
@Jonesenin:
Her getting the Nobel Peace Prize shows how that operation is rigged. She simped for George Bush and now pays court to Donald Trump.
@XueBao1:
On top of it she’s a liar. Bravo Nobel Foundation for choosing a zionist. What a bunch of hypocrite.
@Econgrad5143:
Oh FFS! Next minute, Hamas will be in my home town deep in NZ farming territory. Embarrassing crap. Hamas exists to liberate Palestine from illegal Israeli occupation. Before the occupation, Hamas didn’t exist.
@MosabAbuToha Oct 29, 2025 during the Orange Nazi’s “ceasefire”:
This is Jouri and Jehad al-Attar, who were killed along with their parents in their tents yesterday night.
How the hell are their lives less precious than the lives of Israeli children?
In this air strike, 5 people were killed:
Mahmoud al-Attar (father)
Suha (mother)
Abdallah (son)
Jehad (son)
Jouri (daughter)
@MosabAbuToha Oct 28, 2025 also during the Orange Nazi’s ceasefire, many hundreds more Palestinians have been murdered by Israel during this ceasefire:
Heartbreaking news to share.
I have just learnt that these two children were twins. Their names were Sham and Yahia. (The photo on the left was of them when they were younger).
The devastating news is that they were killed with their parents as well ad their grandparents and three uncles.
Almost an entire family.
Names:
Yahia Abu Dallal (father)
Om Amin (mother)
Mohammad (son)
Bayan (son)
Mostafa (son)
Amin (son)
Om Yahia (wife of the son)
And their twin children
Sham
Yahia
Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis:
Why has UBC Medicine just awarded a fellowship to a pediatric orthopedist who went to participate in the genocide after October 2023?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-17
2025: Deep Dive on Palestine’s hundreds of $billions in oil and gas riches; Israel is stealing all of it.
