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By iPolitics. Published on Feb 22, 2021 12:59pm
Oil tanker
(Photo: CC, Andrew M. Meyers, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Lead
Israel is currently looking for the ship responsible for an oil spill which caused tar to wash up on its Mediterranean shoreline. Nine ships were about 50 kilometres off Israel’s shore on Feb. 11 when the oil spill happened.
“There is a more than reasonable chance that we will be able to locate the specific ship,” the environmental protection minister, Gila Gamliel, told Ynet TV.
If responsibility is attributed, Israel could pursue legal action, in which one option includes suing “insurance companies for compensation to help deal with the ecological fallout.” The Guardian has more.