Oil spilled from IAF bombed power plant pollutes Lebanon's coast

[Scurrilous]

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"A south Lebanon power plant that was knocked down by Israel Air Force planes some two weeks ago caused a massive oil spill along the Beirut's coast.

Lebanon has made an urgent request to the UN in recent days for assistance in the ecological crisis.

Fishermen say hundreds of oil-coated fish have been washed ashore in what is the country's worst ever environmental disaster.

Lebanon approached the UN because it doesn't have the means to treat an environmental crisis of this magnitude. The UN has developed in recent years a contingency plan, involving the cooperation between several countries, to treat this kind of pollution.

"Countries such as Algeria and Cyprus as well as the European Union have expressed willingness to give immediate aid. However, clean-up activity will not be able to begin until the military operation ceases. In general, we are talking about clean-up by hand along wide stretches of coast," said Louisa Koalsimona of the UN emergency response program in Malta.

About 130 kilometers of Lebanon's shores had been affected by the spill of at least 15,000 tons of oil from the Jiyeh plant, about 20 kilometers south of Beirut, the city's mayor, Abdel Monem Ariss, said Friday."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/744026.html

[Tom Joad]

1. We can add ecocide to the list of war crimes.

[IndianaGreen]

2. As if Israel cared at all what the world thinks about her war crimes

Israel is as bad as America!