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The article highlights a report, released by the United Nations Environment Programme, detailing the results of an environmental assessment carried out to determine the effects of Hezbollah's conflict with Israel during the summer of 2006. The oil spill that resulted when Israel bombed a power plant south of Beirut, Lebanon, has contaminated coastal areas. An analysis of oil samples from the Jiyyeh tank farm shows a weathered fuel oil with low concentrations of acutely toxic hydrocarbons.

The article highlights the 6th resolution of United Nations (UN) General Assembly condemning Israel and calling for Israeli government to compensate Lebanon from oil spill environmental damages caused by an airstrike that targeted Jiyyeh power plant during the 2006 conflict. The compensation reportedly should cover environmental restoration cost and damage remediation caused by the attack. About 15,000 barrels of oil contaminated 150 kilometers of shoreline south of Beirut, Lebanon.