Strategies to Maintain Fuel Security in Palestine رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

Fuel plays a key role in many aspects of life, but particularly in a country’s national security. Energy insecurity leads to economic and political instability, and can cause wars to break out, or workers to strike. In this study, the researcher is investigating the strategies used to maintain fuel security in Palestine. The aim is to define the challenges facing Palestine’s fuel security, while exploring geopolitical variables and their impacts. Moreover, the researcher aims to identify the quantities of fuel needed to achieve energy security in Palestine, as well as investigate the territory’s fuel storage policies and the potential to build fuel security infrastructure. Furthermore, this study attempts to determine the differences between private and government institutions working to achieve fuel security and to evaluate the effectiveness of the fuel security strategy in Palestine. After understanding the main obstacles curbing the development of the fuel security strategy in Palestine, the researcher will engage with interested parties working to develop achieve future fuel security. A combination of descriptive and comparative approach has been used because the study requires the collection of clear and appropriate data on strategies to maintain fuel security in Palestine and compare the Palestinian circumstances with the circumstances of other countries in achieving fuel security in the short term. The time limits of the study were 1994-2019, and the temporal boundaries of the study were Palestine, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. A nanostructured interview was used as a data collection tool from the interviewees where the researcher could obtain all the data needed to collect it. VII The study consists of five chapters consisting of an introduction to the study, study literature, the concept of fuel security, strategies for fuel security in Palestine, findings and recommendations. The added value of this study stems from it being one of the few scientific studies, within the researcher's knowledge, which looks at the subject of fuel reserves in Palestine. It will add to the Palestinian library in particular and the Arabic library in general by generating new scientific material on the importance of the fuel shortage crisis. The main results of this study are a proposed fuel security strategy with proposed objectives to achieve fuel security in case of crisis in the State of Palestine. The researcher reached six main results, including the absence of a strategy to check fuel security in Palestine and the private sector, especially Al-Huda Company, bears the burden of providing fuel to the Palestinian markets in case of a crisis, failure to adopt a fuel security strategy due to the absence of a healthy environment (political conditions) and the direct linked to full independence and openness to markets as well as the need to adopt a fuel security strategy not only for emergencies but also for the ability to set prices independently of Israel and finally building fuel security strategy needs legislative support. In light of these results, the recommendations of the study included strengthen the procedures of the Palestinian Petroleum Authority and private companies to ensure the availability of fuel in the Palestinian markets, the necessity of initiating the building of the infrastructure needed to create a fuel security strategy in the future, the necessity for continuous and diligent efforts and actions to compel the Israelis to abide by the agreements signed during the Oslo Accords, the necessity of competent authorities to VIII search for alternative manners to provide fuel for Palestine and to avoid dependence on Israel because of the high cost of fuel to the Palestinian citizen (in other words the dissolution of the Paris economic agreements). the necessity of coordinating with the private sector, which provides fuel to the Palestinian markets, and in the legislative aspect the necessity of the competent authorities to Pass laws and regulations to regulate the fuel sector in Palestine. This study is important for planners, policy makers and decision makers, as it will highlight the importance of the fuel shortage crisis for future fuel security in Palestine.