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Apr. 23, 2021 6:04 AM
More than two months have passed since the severe oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, which caused great damage to the offshore waters and the coasts of Israel and Lebanon. The washing ashore of lumps of tar is considered one of the major ecological disasters in Israel’s history. Those who purportedly bore direct guilt for the disaster were marked.
The Environmental Protection Ministry announced that the oil was ejected into the water from the Emerald, a pirate oil tanker of Libyan ownership, which had set out from the Persian Gulf. Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel went so far as to declare that the incident was a case of “ecological terrorism,” an act originating in Iran that targeted Israel.