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UN asks Israel to pay Lebanon $850 millions for oil spill
[IsraelTimes] The U.N. General Assembly
...the powerless place where countries go to jointly register disapproval of Israel...
has overwhelmingly approved a resolution asking Israel to pay Leb over $850 million in damages for an oil spill caused by an Israeli air force attack on oil storage tanks during its war with Hezbollah in July 2006.

The assembly voted 170-6 in favor of the nonbinding resolution, with three abstentions. Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, Micronesia and Marshall Islands voted ?no.?

The resolution says ?the environmental disaster? caused by the destruction of the tanks resulted in an oil slick that covered the entire Lebanese coastline and extended to the Syrian coastline, causing extensive pollution.

The assembly acknowledged the conclusions in a report by Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
 that studies show the value of damage to Leb amounted to $856.4 million in 2014.
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-20
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=406642