After over a decade of dispute settlement efforts, Israel and Lebanon reached an agreement to establish their common maritime boundary in October 2022. This agreement is a pioneering achievement in the region. It is the first maritime boundary agreement reached between two States that do not have diplomatic relations. The agreement solidifies the trend towards pursuing maritime delimitation and related arrangements over seabed resources in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. This article analyses the legal nature and content of the Lebanon-Israel 2022 maritime boundary agreement and its implications for the tripoint delimitation of the overlapping maritime areas between Cyprus, Lebanon, and Israel.
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