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The tar covered the shores of Israel: "It is impossible for the person in charge to leave without anything"
The Ministry of Environmental Protection is still trying to assess the ecological and biological damage caused to beaches and animals, but clarifies that they will use the resources at their disposal to find those responsible.
The director general of the ministry fears that the cleaning work will take weeks, and estimates that the cost of cleaning could amount to tens of millions of shekels
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Gila Gamliel
Ministry of the Environment
Beaches
Coastal pollution
Yoav Itiel
Friday, February 19, 2021, 11:35 p.m.
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In the video: Large amounts of tar were ejected off the coast of Israel (Photo: Ministry of Environmental Protection)
The Minister of Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel, held a conference call today (Friday) with 16 heads of authorities bordering the coast, following an incident of pollution of the tar blocks on the country's shores.
"This is an event of a magnitude we haven't seen in years," she said during a second situation assessment within a day.
"The ecological and biological damage caused by it has not yet been assessed. We are doing everything we can to find those responsible for the destruction of the beaches and the human damage to the animal environment."
The director general of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, David Yahalomi, says in an interview with Walla! NEWS that the authorities have already received clear instructions on how to act. "The ministry is guiding.
But that's part of their responsibility.
They know it and are prepared for it.
Following their report to Sarah, the ministry will also refine the guidelines. "
Yahalomi assures that they use all the resources at their disposal to find those responsible." We operate international agencies and are assisted by all international maritime agencies, and we very much hope that we find the polluter and pay for the damage. ".
he added that Gamaliel" gave a very clear guidance in this regard.
It will also be a very important message for the future.
There can be no disaster of this magnitude and the person responsible for it will come out with nothing.
I believe that even in this case, the long arm of the State of Israel will locate the source and obtain the person responsible for harming it. "
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The cleaning work will take weeks.
Blocks of tar on Dor Beach, today (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
This morning there is a tour of diamonds on the beaches to assess the situation with the director of the Nature and Parks Authority, Shaul Goldstein, and the professionals of both bodies. As part of the tour, they visited Tel Dor National Park which is due to officially open next month to assess the severe damage caused by tar landing on the rocky beach. exhibited works cleanup and rescue already made and the work program to continue the fight pollution, struck the coasts saved from Rosh Hanikra to the buds, and all beaches down when the north to the coast of Ashkelon.
"the event was just the beginning and we are still studying the scope," said diamond. it provides a conservative estimate that It involves landing up to a thousand tons of tar that have been emitted for 160-170 kilometers or more. The cleaning work will take weeks, but "but can also take longer than that," he says. In his initial estimate, the cost of cleaning will amount to millions to tens of millions of shekels. The estimate stems in part from the storm, and the difficulty in estimating the amounts of oil that may still land on shore.
"The damage is first and foremost to the animals."
The common whale that was washed ashore in the Nitzanim Reserve, yesterday (Photo: Official website, Dr. Aviad Sheinin)
Tomorrow, an observation plane will set out to try to locate oil slicks in the sea, as well as to map more precisely the damage to the country's shores.
"We have to deal with tar that is semi-solid and sticky and this makes it difficult to evacuate. Speed is important because once the weather warms up the viscous material will become liquid and make it even more difficult to collect," says Yahalomi.
Diamonds emphasizes that this is not just a matter of aesthetics.
"The damage is also to nature and first and foremost to the animals, and we have already seen animals affected. We assume six also mortality and still do not know how to estimate it. We are still examining the damage to the whale but not only it, but rather smaller species, such as sea turtles. We know they were harmed. "
Diamonds promises that in the near future professional bodies will carry out monitoring of the sea itself.
"After we review the biodiversity in the sea we become smarter and land damage must not be underestimated. When tar lands on the ground it pollutes it and poisons it, for all that that implies. There are a lot of animals on this land and within it."
There is a fear of opening the bathing season due to the contamination.
Blocks of tar on Dor Beach, today (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
The chairman of the Meretz faction, MK Tamar Zandberg, said that "in combination with the recent storm, the sea pollution caused very serious damage to endangered sea turtles, seagulls and arachnids, which were almost completely covered with a black and toxic layer. It is estimated that the source of the pollution is the emission of oil from a ship that passed off the coast of Israel. "
Zandberg claims that the serious incident is the result of environmental pollution and the climate crisis. "Dozens of animals are currently in danger, and some have not survived the disaster. The emission of one ship has caused damage that will take us a very long time to repair. This is the result of environmental pollution and the climate crisis. Nature and animals should not be victims of human irresponsibility and neglect We have the power to change. "
Sharon Carmel, chairman of the Association of Cities and head of the Hof Hacarmel Council, Asif Isaac, warns that there is a fear of opening the bathing season due to the severe pollution he described as "one of the biggest environmental damages our beaches have known." He said volunteers from all over the country help the council In cleaning its beaches, this is unprecedented, "but stressed that" we will not be able to open the bathing season in this situation. We must all bodies be harnessed with the coastal authorities to clean the beaches. It's an environmental disaster of a magnitude we never knew existed. I call on all government ministries to step in and help us. "
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