Four policemen were wounded on Monday trying to disperse protesters in Jiyyeh, south of the capital, who had blocked a major highway to prevent the disposal of trash in the area, the official ...

An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing of the Jiyyeh power station now covers 80km (50 miles) of coast. Local environmental groups describe the slick as an "environmental disaster". Almost as much oil ...

Following the bombing of the Jiyyeh power plant south of Beirut in mid-July, about 15,000 tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the sea and spread 150 kilometres northwards, reaching Syria. Samples from ...

Israeli raids in mid-July on the Jiyyeh Power Station released thousands of tons of oil along the Lebanese coast, perhaps rivaling the Exxon Valdex accident in 1989. By August 8, the spill covered ...

BEIRUT: Almost a year and a half has passed since Israeli warplanes bombed the Jiyyeh power plant on the Mediterranean coast south of Beirut, and yet the ongoing clean-up of the ensuing oil spill ...

A statement said: “In the worst-case scenario, and if all the oil contained in the bombed power plant at Jiyyeh leaked into the Mediterranean Sea, the Lebanese oil spill could well rival the ...

So far, 15,000 tonnes of fuel oil has leaked into the Mediterranean Sea from Lebanon's bombed Jiyyeh power plant, 30 kilometres south of Beirut. With more than 100 kilometres of the Lebanese ...

"Three protesters were wounded when security forces, using tear gas and firing shots in the air, tried to forcibly reopen the Jiyyeh highway," Barja Mayor Nashaat Hamiyeh told The Daily Star.

Nearly 15 000 tonnes of leaked oil from the Jiyyeh electric plant, bombed by Israel last month, has polluted about 140km of the Lebanese coast and spread north into Syrian waters ...

Two people were killed and two others injured in a traffic accident on the coastal highway of al-Jiyyeh, south of Beirut, the National News Agency reported on Sunday. NNA identified the dead as Hanaa ...

The state-owned Electricité du Liban (EDL) has signed a contract with an unnamed Egyptian company to install new storage tanks at the Jiyyeh power plant, which was shelled by Israeli jets during the ...

The oil storage tanks at Jiyyeh power plant burnt for 25 days after they were hit, spewing toxic fumes into the atmosphere. But with a pump donated from Norway, the Lebanese authorities have ...