Jiyeh

Jiyeh is a  town on the Lebanese coast, 27 km south of Beirut and 10 km north of Sidon. The town is built upon the ancient city of Porphyreon, where a giant fish was purported to have delivered Jonah to the shore.

On July 14th 2006,  the third day of the military conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a rocket hit the fuel storage area of an aging power station in Jiyeh causing over 20,000 tons of oil to spill into the Mediterranean Sea.