Israel slaps gag order on oil spill probe
Court approves ban on releasing key details including name of vessel believed to have leaked oil into sea off Israeli coast, port of origin and destination; state claims such information could cloud investigation into Israel s worst environmental crisis
Ahiya Raved, Ilana Curiel |
Published: 02.22.21 , 14:45
A gag order was issued Monday on the details of the investigation into the massive oil spill that has polluted the majority of Israel’s beaches, at the request of the Environmental Protection Ministry.
The heavy pollution and the subsequent widespread ecological damage that has shut all but two of Israel’s beaches to visitors is believed to have been caused by a massive oil spill from a foreign ship passing close to the coast of Israel last week.
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Israelis suit up to save tar-soaked beaches
Green bags filled with tar-coated shells and detritus quickly piled up on the beach. The ministry and environmental groups estimate at least 1,000 tons of tar washed up on the coast as cause of spill still dubbed worst ecological disaster, investigated
Associated Press |
Published: 02.22.21 , 22:43
A small Israeli task force scoured the sands of a nature reserve along Israel’s Mediterranean coast Monday, taking part in a widening effort to clean up a disastrous oil spill that has blackened most of the country’s shoreline and reached beaches of neighboring Lebanon.
The roughly dozen workers on Palmachim Beach were among thousands of volunteers, soldiers and park rangers who have taken up the task of extracting millions of tiny globs of sticky black tar that have coated the Israeli shoreline in recent days after an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea. The cleanup is expected to take months.