Israeli Environment Minister: The oil spill is Iranian terrorism

Israeli Environment Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said in a press conference that the environmental disaster that hit Israeli shores last month was caused by the Libyan ship called Emerald, which was carrying oil from Iran. “Between February 1 and February 2 a container of crude oil was poured into the sea and polluted materials made their way to the shores of Israel. I have said all the time that we are talking about environmental criminals. But we discovered that we are not like that. We are only talking about environmental criminals but about environmental terrorists,” Gamliel said. A Libyan-owned pirate ship is responsible for this environmental terrorism. It left Iran with its radio switched off, turned it on again, then stopped it again for a day, before entering Israeli economic waters and polluting Israel’s waters. And when it arrived, Syria restarted the radio. ” Related materials The IDF is mobilizing to clean Israeli shores of tar and added, “We are talking about a 19-year-old ship, which will not be able to sail to European or American ports. The ship is currently in Iran. The State of Israel will do so. We are demanding compensation from a fund.” International criticism and we will settle accounts for the damage caused by the “Emerald.” We see that Iran does not only operate terrorism with nuclear weapons but through harm to the environment. When Iran harms the environment, it does not only harm Israel. Our struggle against environmental damage and pollution is A transnational struggle, Rani Amir, director of the National Marine Protection Division at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said that the actions of the emeralds that caused the damage were illegal, but Israel could not act directly against it. Iran to another country. The movement of the ship and the stopping of the systems of its identification and movement around the port of Latakia (Syria) clarifies that the goal was to take out crude oil on board a ship below the required level. Talk of potential terrorism, or a ship bug that went unreported. Posted by Globes, Israel business news – en.globes.co.il – on March 3, 2021 © Copyright Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2021