UNESCO has granted protection to Gaza's Saint Hilarion Monastery after reports of damage during the ongoing war. Over 100 heritage sites in Gaza, including the Islamic University of Gaza, have been damaged or destroyed. Gaza's important archaeological sites, including an Iron Age rampart, Roman structures, and a Byzantine cemetery, have been largely destroyed by Israel's invasion, threatening the region's historical and cultural heritage.
The Israeli military’s cruelty in Gaza is the point.
One of Gaza's most important archaeological sites has been largely destroyed by Israel's invasion https://t.co/pEkMwOVfPi
One of Gaza's most important archaeological sites has been largely destroyed by Israel's invasion. It included an Iron Age rampart, Roman structures and a Byzantine cemetery https://t.co/wixLZgOhDO
One of Gaza's most important archaeological sites has been largely destroyed by Israel's invasion. It included an Iron Age rampart, Roman structures and a Byzantine cemeteryhttps://pulse.ly/i1cqu3yktc
War on Gaza: Important archaeological site 'mostly destroyed' by Israeli invasion https://t.co/yCsVebdWnL https://t.co/CTtAiSlNA0
Israel is not only destroying modern Gaza, it is obliterating its past too https://t.co/Nx21zqUzbY
Gaza’s most important archaeological site ruined forever: bombed from the air, then dug through and terraformed with bulldozers, then made to host a pumping station for flooding tunnels with seawater while ruining the coastal aquifers. https://t.co/ttr12Gz6iv
One of Gaza’s most important archaeological sites—threatened previously by Israeli bombings/siege—has been mostly destroyed in the Israeli invasion. The site, near al-Shati refugee camp, consists of several excavations which suggest extensive remains throughout the area: https://t.co/fJsDVNGvph
“So far, more than 100 heritage sites in Gaza have been damaged or levelled... The Islamic University of Gaza, the first higher education institution established in the Gaza Strip in 1978, and which trains, among others, Gaza’s doctors and engineers, has been destroyed” https://t.co/UTm6XlslPi
.@UNESCO grants protection to Gaza's Saint Hilarion Monastery following reports that the ancient archaeological site—which contains churches and cemeteries—has been damaged during the ongoing war https://t.co/2h9y7oq7Gu
.@UNESCO grants protection to Gaza's Saint Hilarion Monastery following reports that the ancient archaeological site—which contains churches and burial cemeteries—has been damaged during the ongoing war https://t.co/2h9y7oq7Gu