Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Prime Minister Yair Lapid of bargaining away Israel’s “sovereign territory” in a potential agreement to resolve Israel’s long-running maritime border dispute with Lebanon.
Lapid, meanwhile, said the opposition leader was bitter for not reaching a deal when he was premier.
Speaking to reporters in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu reaffirmed his stance that the agreement “is illegal and we won’t be obligated by it,” should he return to power after the November 1 election.
The Likud chief charged that if the agreement — whose full details have not been made public — is signed, then the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah will be “receiving Israel’s sovereign territory and a gas field worth billions of dollars.”
