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An investigation into a disastrous oil slick affecting Israel’s entire 120-mile coastline, as well as other areas in the eastern Mediterranean, is the subject of an “extraordinary” seven-day gag order, preventing media from publishing details from the investigation, according to reports. Around 1,000 tonnes of tar from the oil spill is believed to have washed up, covering wildlife including baby turtles and fish which have been found covered in.
Rescuers saving turtles from a devastating oil spill that has coated Israel’s coast with thick black tar have found an unlikely ally – mayonnaise.
The spill, which Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority has called one of the country’s worst ecological disasters on record, has coated most of Israel’s 120 miles of Mediterranean coastline with sticky tar, and has caused extensive damage to wildlife, including sea turtles.
Guy Ivgy, a medical assistant at the National Sea Turtle Rescue Centre in Michmoret, north of Tel Aviv, said 11 turtles are being treated at the unit.
A six-month-old green sea turtle is treated at Israel’s Sea Turtle Rescue Centre (Ariel Schalit/AP)