The “worst ecological disaster” that the country has known: it is in these terms that the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot evokes the tons of fuel oil which stick to the beaches of Israel, victim of an oil spill. In total, 170 kilometers of sand are said to be contaminated with oil, or 40% of the country’s coastline, reports International mail.
Daily Haaretz considers it to be the “worst marine pollution in the country in decades”. Marine fauna is already affected by this oil spill. Thursday, February 18, the body of a calf washed up on the beach of Nitzanim, in the south of the country. The young cetacean, ten meters long, was autopsied: it had swallowed large quantities of oil.
An “alarm signal”
Thousands of volunteers showed up to undertake the cleaning up of the beaches. Secondly, members of the Israeli army came as reinforcements. The authorities of the country are however criticized by certain newspapers which consider their contribution too slow and too insufficient in the event of environmental disaster.
The newspaper Haaretz wrote in an editorial that he hopes the oil spill will act as a “red flag” for better disaster management in the future. In the meantime, the authorities are seeking to identify the ship responsible for the fuel oil leak.
The government has “identified ten ships”
They thus succeeded in establishing that the origin of the oil was about fifty kilometers off the coast of the country. Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said the government had “identified ten vessels” in the area.
“One or more of them could be responsible” for the oil spill, she added, relying on data from the European Maritime Safety Agency. The investigation to find the person (s) responsible could take less time than the cleaning of the beaches which promises to be spread over years …
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