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A total of ten vessels have been found to have been in the vicinity of the possible original position of the massive oil spill in Israel, the IMO said.
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Minerva Marine Denies Involvement in Israeli Oil Spill
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Thursday February 25, 2021 Shipping company Israel s beaches to close. Israel s
Mediterranean beaches to the public this week after a suspected spill on
February 11 resulted in tar washing up on its coastline. The ministry is now looking into a selection of ships that it thinks could have caused the spill. Minerva Marine published a statement on its website on Tuesday denying the involvement of its ship the
Minerva Helen in the spill. The vessel was not involved in any operation nor in any other activity that could be connected to an oil discharge at sea, the company said.
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Israeli soldiers clean tar off the Palmachim beach following an offshore oil spill which hit most of the Israeli coastline. February 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The Environmental Protection Ministry on Thursday pushed back against accusations of a tardy response to the oil spill disaster that has seen almost all of Israel’s Mediterranean beaches closed down because of tar pollution.
Reports of the pollution emerged last Thursday when a dead 17-meter baby fin whale washed up on Israel’s southern coast, along with other wildlife.
Asked why it took so long for Israeli authorities to get a grip on what had happened, the Environmental Protection Ministry’s director of the National Unit for the Protection of the Marine Environment, Rani Amir, said, “We had no early warning and no one in the Mediterranean knew about it.”