Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field – CORRIGENDUM

1.The following sentence contains a factual mistake: 'Western Sahara, which was annexed by Morocco in 1976 following the withdrawal of Portugal : : : ' (page 26).In fact, it was Spain who withdrew from Western Sahara, and not Portugal.This mistake was created during the revision process.The original sentence was longer and contained two separate cases.The full sentence was meant to be: 'Western Sahara, which was annexed by Morocco in 1976 following the withdrawal of Spain, and East Timor, which was annexed by Indonesia following the withdrawal of Portugal.'However, the middle of the sentence (which appears in italics) was accidentally cut during one of our editing rounds, creating a factual mistake that needs to be corrected.2. Factually, the State of Palestine is the signatory to UNCLOS (page 18).This should be corrected.Although the title may not infer the status of 'Palestine' (see the authors' reflection paper for more detail), the authors believe that this is still an important correction to make. 3. Footnote 86 is not worded correctly and should be rephrased.It makes it appear as if the population of Gaza and the West Bank are referred to as two separate people.This was not the intention of the footnote.It references the idea that Gaza has a separate legal status than the West Bank as it relates to the law of the sea, not that the people of Gaza are separate.The authors' argument was that the political situation may affect the application of the right to self-determination of the two entities, and thus the second part of the footnote should be clarified accordingly.4.