Energy exports play a central role in Israel’s campaign to normalize relations with its neighbors and avoid accountability for its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. An energy embargo on Israel should go hand-in-hand with calls for an arms embargo.
On March 17, 2025, Israel launched airstrikes across five municipalities across Gaza without warning. More than 400 Palestinians were murdered, including 100 children. The airstrikes violently ruptured the tentative ceasefire agreement brokered in January. Hours before the massacre, delegates from SOCAR, BP, and New Med arrived in Israel to officially announce a deal to explore the zone known as “Cluster I”; a 1700 sq km area near the Leviathan gas field operated by the U.S. global energy company, Chevron. Cluster I is one of several offshore exploration licenses tendered by Israel throughout the genocide, including licenses to extract gas from Palestinian waters annexed by Israel.
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