More than 10,000 tons of heavy fuel oil from the Jiyyeh power plant, leaked into the sea during the summer 2006 war, due to repeated air strikes by Israeli warplanes. "Where did the American company ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israel has expanded the zones it has been striking since Tuesday night, with attacks for the first time on the beach resort town of Jiyyeh just south of Beirut and Maaysrah. For the latest updates ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...