TEL AVIV – Israel accused Iran on Wednesday of being linked to a recent oil spill off its shores that caused major ecological damage, calling the incident environmental terrorism.
The spill was caused by an oil tanker that was carrying pirated cargo from Iran to Syria last month, Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said.
The vessel sailed through the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea without radio contact, switching its tracking devices back on before passing through Egypt’s Suez Canal, Gamliel told reporters.
It turned the devices off again before entering Israeli waters in the eastern Mediterranean, and it dropped oil into the sea February 1 or 2, she said, naming the vessel as the Panama-flagged oil tanker Emerald.
“Iran is [conducting] terrorism by damaging the environment, and [when] Iran is damaging the environment, it isn’t just hurting the state of Israel,” Gamliel said.
There was no immediate comment from Iran…
FILE – An Israeli soldier holds a clump of tar cleaned from the sand after an offshore oil spill deposited tar along Israel’s Mediterranean shoreline, at a beach in Atlit, Israel, Feb. 22, 2021.
Environmental Disaster
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