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February 23, 2021 The Israeli government met urgently to decide how to intervene to limit the damage of the oil spill that hit the coasts of the state in all its length, from north to south.
The government has warned citizens to avoid getting too close to the coast, where there are several dead marine animals, including a beached 17-meter whale covered in tar.
It is alarming for parks and natural oases, with the Israeli National Parks Authority saying it will take months to clean up the coast and quantify the damage to the ecosystem, particularly in rocky areas, cliffs and rocky bottoms. .
It is suspected that a Greek-flagged oil tanker, the Minerva Helen, may have caused the ecological disaster, due to a spill of crude oil that tarred the beaches.
The ship would have come from the Suez Canal and is now anchored in the Spanish port of Cartagena.
The same ship was the protagonist of an ecological disaster off Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, in 2008, when 200 tons of crude oil were lost at sea.
The Greek shipowner, owner of the oil tanker, however, denied the Israeli broadcaster Kan that this time he was responsible for the disaster that hit the beaches of Israel.