Environmental Expert claims Israel violated Laws of War in causing Lebanon Oil Spill
Calls attack “a malicious intent to inflict widespread environmental and economic damage.”
Asks Israel to pay $1 billion (USD) for Restoration
PRESS RELEASE August 29, 2006
Contacts: Professor Rick Steiner (Alaska USA):
afrgs@uaa.alaska.edu
After a 2-week mission to Lebanon to assess the damage and guide
response operations for the nation's largest oil spill, an American
environmental expert claims that the Israeli missile strikes on the
Jiyyeh power plant south of Beirut that caused the spill
likelyviolated international laws of war.
Rick Steiner, professor at the University of Alaska and member of
the IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy,
has been in Lebanon to advise the Government of Lebanon and NGOs on
the spill.
In a letter sent today to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
Professor Steiner said: "I am not taking sides here in this
conflict. I do not care if the person pulling the trigger on the
missiles that hit Jiyyeh was Israeli, Hizbollah, or other", Steiner
said. “As the tank farm is within 100 m of the sea, it was clear
that such an attack could lead to a massive oil pollution disaster
in the eastern Mediterranean basin, and as such likely violated
international laws of war”, he said.
"All nations are governed by rules of conduct in war, and those
rules specifically prohibit intentionally inflicting
unnecessaryenvironmental harm," he said.
In today’s letter to Prime Minister Olmert, Steiner cited Paragraph
18 of the Geneva Convention:
All armed forces, whether regular or irregular, should
continue to observe the principles and rules of international
environmental and humanitarian law to which the parties to the
conflict are bound in times of peace. Natural and cultural resources
shall not be pillaged under any circumstances.
As well, he cited the Statute of the International Criminal Court
stipulating in Article 8 that the following may constitute a war
crime:
Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such an
attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or
damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe
damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive
in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage
anticipated.
Professor Steiner said that because the Israeli military knew that
the attack may result in a massive oil spill and an environmental
disaster along the Lebanese coast, and struck twice to achieve this
objective, it was obviously an intentional act designed to inflict
large-scale environmental injury. And if not for the 2-week fire
that burned another 25,000 tons of fuel oil at the plant, the spill
would have been over twice as large as it was. He told Prime
Minister Olmert that the Jiyyeh attack appeared to represent “a
malicious intent to inflict widespread environmental and economic
damage.”
Professor Steiner requested of Prime Minister Olmert agree to a full
and immediate legal inquiry of the incident, and for Israel to
establish a $1 billion (USD) Eastern Mediterranean Oil Spill
Restoration Fund. This Fund would be used to reimburse all
government costs for response and cleanup, lost income for fishermen
and tourism businesses, and for the implementation of a
comprehensive program for the injured coastal and marine
environment, he said.
"The Jiyyeh attack and resulting oil spill had no strategic value
whatsoever. Are we still barbarians at war, pitching boiling oil on
our enemies over the castle walls here? We simply must find a better
way to behave in the 21st century, even in war."
The Lebanon government has initiated a comprehensive Natural
Resource Damage Assessment program to quantify the environmental
damage caused by the spill.
"Our small planet has had a rough enough time of late for us to now
be inflicting intentional harm to our environment," Professor
Steiner said. "We have to do better."
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