Reuters
The Presidency of the Lebanese Republic announced that President Michel Aoun followed the issue of the oil spill, which was apparently caused by a ship passing near the coast of Israel and reaching the shores of southern Lebanon.
In a tweet via Twitter, the Lebanese presidency said: “President Aoun followed the available data on the oil spill that occurred on the shores of the occupied territories, and the measures that must be taken to limit its negative impact on the Lebanese coast, and stressed the need to conduct a comprehensive survey of Lebanese regional waters from the south to North to search for any contaminated spots. “
President Aoun followed the available data on the oil spill that occurred on the shores of the occupied territories, and the measures that must be taken to limit its negative impact on the Lebanese coast, and stressed the need to conduct a comprehensive survey of Lebanese regional waters from the south to the north in order to search for any polluted spots
– Lebanese Presidency (@LBpresidency) February 25, 2021
A statement issued by the caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s office said that the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Environment and Administrative Development, and the National Council for Scientific Research have been assigned to follow up, noting that “the sticky black deposits that appeared on Israeli shores are now found in a nature reserve in Tire, southern Lebanon.”
On Sunday, Israeli officials announced that they were trying to identify the ship that caused the leak that covered a large part of its coast on the Mediterranean with tar, in an environmental disaster that could take months or years to clear its effects.
Israel views a ship that passed on February 11 about 50 km off its coast as a possible source of the oil spill.
The government of Israel also recommended to refrain from visiting all beaches bordering the Mediterranean Sea, due to the oil spill that poisoned a number of people during an operation to clean up the coastline.
Source: RT + “Reuters”
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