(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, FEBRUARY 21 - 'The worst marine pollution in Israel in recent decades': this is how the press describes the gradual arrival on the coast of a huge spot of crude oil in recent days.
More or less large quantities of oily liquid were found yesterday on various stretches of the coast, from the far north to the south for a total distance of 170 kilometers.
Some sea turtles covered in a black slimy substance are dead.
A young dead cetacean was also found ashore, but it is not known whether it was also a victim of pollution.
The ministry for the defense of the environment has activated an emergency procedure.
It also requested detailed information from the European Marine Traffic Authority to reconstruct the movements of a dozen ships that a week ago were in the vicinity of a vast oily scrub then pushed by the current towards Israel.
It is assumed to be tens of tons of crude oil.
Yesterday on the beaches of Israel thousands of volunteers carried out a first cleaning.
But the environmental damage, even to the seabed, is huge and according to estimates will require years of effort to be repaired.
(ANSAmed).
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