The leader of the armed group Hezbollah on Wednesday warned that “no one” would be allowed to operate in maritime oil and gas fields if Lebanon was barred from its “rights” in extracting from areas off of its own coast.

"If you don't give us the rights that our state is asking for... then we could flip the table on everyone," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address. 

"If you want to get to a formula where this country is barred from taking advantage (of these fields), then no one will be allowed to extract gas or oil and no one will be able to sell gas or oil," he continued.

Lebanon and Israel are locked in US-mediated negotiations to delineate a shared maritime border that would determine which oil and gas resources belong to which country.

As reported by i24 News
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