Palestinian Authority

Unesco rejects Palestinian heritage proposal

Non-member status of the United Nations makes it ineligible to successfully nominate sites

Published online: 26 May 2011

Israel opens mosaic museum in the West Bank

The $2.5m Museum of the Good Samaritan houses mosaics and antiquities at a Christian pilgrimage site

Published online: 24 June 2009

Photo project asks: “Can you tell an Israeli and Palestinian apart?”

Olivier Suter’s “Enemies” show features lookalikes

Published online: 17 June 2009

Painful punishment for Palestinian Unesco membership

Archaeologists see membership as a step forward while Israel and the US suspend funding in protest

Issue 230, available from the Archive

The vote and the penalty

Issue 230, available from the Archive

Tensions rise over Israel’s plan to restore sites in occupied territories

Palestine and Syria object to the addition of three further sites to Israel’s “national heritage” list

Issue 221, available from the Archive

Who owns the sacred sites of the Holy Land?

Unesco has provoked fury by designating two tombs that Israel claims are its exclusive cultural heritage as Palestinian. We sought the views of a respected figure in the international Jewish community and a leading Palestinian academic on the decision

Issue 221, available from the Archive

Holy row between Israel and Unesco

The country temporarily suspends ties with the organisation over its labelling of West Bank sites

Issue 219, available from the Archive

First evidence of damage to Gaza’s cultural sites emerges

Antiquities museum hit; fears grow for excavated archaeology

Issue 199, available from the Archive

Attendance plummets at Gaza’s only museum

The drop in visitors is a result of an Israeli blockade

Issue 198, available from the Archive

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