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Israel is cleaning up tonnes of tar from its beaches, but the origins of the spill are shrouded in mystery
Who do you blame when roughly 1,000 tonnes of sticky black tar wash up along hundreds of kilometres of beaches on Israel’s Mediterranean coast?
Weeks have now passed since investigators first asked themselves this question, after a mysterious oil spill off Israel’s coast reached shores on February 17.
Since then, the country has announced tens of millions of dollars towards an investigation to get to the bottom of the spill’s source.
Yet, as theories have been floated and accusations thrown, the mystery of who is behind one of Israel’s worst-ever environmental disasters so far remains unsolved.
A huge swell brought the oil ashore
What Israeli authorities are certain of is that it all probably started back in early February.
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