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Saturday, 01 May 2021_A huge fire has broken out in an oil refinery in the port city of Haifa in the occupied territories, with initial media reports of a
The Israeli media said the incident took place in one of the facilities at the BAZAN refinery in Haifa late on Friday.
The factory's emergency team immediately began working to extinguish the blaze and rescue forces were called to the site to gain control of the flames.
Israeli English-language daily newspaper the Jerusalem Post, citing Israel’s environment protection ministry, claimed that the fire at the BAZAN refinery had erupted as a result of a “damaged pipe in the CCR system,” and a report by Israel's Channel 12 television network said the control valve of one of the installation pipes had broken.
The Israeli paper said the fire has been put out and the plant has currently stopped supplying fuel to the oil facility in Haifa.
The media outlets have, so far, provided no details about the extent of the damage and the number of possible casualties.
The occupying regime has, over the past years, been under attack by the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance groups as the Tel Aviv’s much-publicized missile interception systems have on numerous occasions proved inefficient.
In an unprecedented incident last week, the regime reported a missile blast near its highly-secretive Dimona nuclear facility. Tel Aviv claimed the missile had landed in the Israeli-occupied territories as a result of “errant” Syrian anti-aircraft fire.
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