Thousands of volunteers and soldiers are trying to clean Israel’s beaches after dozens of tons of tar from a suspected oil spill polluted areas across a 120-mile stretch.
Israelis were ordered to stay away from the coast in what the country’s nature and parks authority called “one of the most serious ecological disasters” in its history.
Israeli planes have been searching for the source of the spill which is believed to come from one of nine ships..
A 17-metre fin whale, whose body watched up on shore at the end of last last week, is believed to be the largest casualty, while environmentalists have been trying to save tar-covered birds and turtles.
