Jiyeh (south of Beirut), 19 August 2006 Sunken Fuel oil, coating the seabed with a carpet of heavy fuel oil up to 10cm thick, around the Jiyeh power plant, 28 km south of Beirut. Up to 15000 tonnes of heavy Fuel oil were spilt along the Lebanese coastline, as a result of the Israeli bombing of the power plant's fuel tanks on the 15th July 2006. These photos increase the urgency for action towards mitigation of the oil spill impacts in Lebanon, and the assessment of the full post- war environmental impacts.
Beirut Lebanon

Jiyeh (south of Beirut), 19 August 2006 Sunken Fuel oil, coating the seabed with a carpet of heavy fuel oil up to 10cm thick, around the Jiyeh power plant, 28 km south of Beirut. Up to 15000 tonnes of heavy Fuel oil were spilt along the Lebanese coastline, as a result of the Israeli bombing of the power plant's fuel tanks on the 15th July 2006. These photos increase the urgency for action towards mitigation of the oil spill impacts in Lebanon, and the assessment of the full post- war environmental impacts.

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