The Ministry of Energy and Water denied in a statement issued on Sunday that “what was mentioned on Israeli Channel 12 under the headline: Washington agrees to an agreement to supply Israeli gas to Lebanon."

The Ministry stressed that "the gas supply agreement that is being worked on between the Lebanese government and the sisterly Egyptian government clearly and explicitly stipulates that the gas should come from Egypt, which owns large quantities of it, and consumes within the same country more than a hundred times what it will provide to Lebanon; therefore, it is capable of supplying Lebanon with a small part of its production and market size.”

The statement added that “this gas will pass through sisterly Jordan, then Syria, while another amount of gas will be supplied according to the transit and swap agreement from the gas fields and system in Homs to reach Deir Ammar plant in the North to provide additional power supply for the Lebanese.”

The Ministry concluded its statement by reiterating that reports about receiving Israeli gas are completely false.