The US-brokered Israel-Lebanon maritime border deal of 2022
Overview · reviewed October 21, 2026
Israel and Lebanon, which remain technically at war, signed a US-brokered agreement in October 2022 setting their maritime border in the Mediterranean, opening the way for offshore gas production.[1][2]
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Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · monthly average of weekly shares (UTC)
4%0%
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Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. Over more than two years each bar is a month: the average of that month's weekly shares, so the shape stays readable. The weekly table below keeps every week. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 6 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (4 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Oct 24, 2022
1
3
1
5 of 181
3%
Oct 10, 2022
8
13
8
29 of 186
16%
Jun 27, 2022
1
0
1
2 of 191
1%
Jun 6, 2022
1
1
0
2 of 186
1%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Nov 8, 2022 · first reported · Headline from France 24
In June 2022 Lebanon said it would invite the United States to mediate talks on the maritime border,[3] and in July Israel's military said it had shot down three Hezbollah drones headed for the Karish gas field.[4]
The deal grew out of a draft agreement floated by US Amos Hochstein to settle competing claims over gas-rich waters. Israel said it would reject Lebanon's proposed amendments to the draft,[5] and days later Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced what he called a "historic agreement."[6] Lebanon's President Michel Aoun announced its approval.[2] The two countries finalized the deal later that month, an agreement President Joe Biden hailed as historic.[1] Weeks later, Lebanon's top negotiator said Lebanon wanted talks with Syria to demarcate their maritime border as well.[7]
