Nu rapporteras det att Hamas i Gaza håller på att förstöra delar av en antika hamnkonstruktioner som finns med på UNESCO:s världsarvslista. Hamas säger sig behöva området för att träna terrorister.
UNESCO:s direktion sammanträder för tillfället för sin 191 session i Paris men förstörelsen av hamnen finns inte med på föredragningslistan.
Däremot är Israel den enda staten i världen som specifikt kritiseras under sessionen enligt UN Watch.
UNESCO silent as Hamas bulldozes world heritage site for terrorist training camp (UN WATCH)
"GENEVA, April 15 - In an urgent letter sent today to UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova (see letter below), UN Watch demanded immediate action to stop the Hamas bulldozing of a 3000-year-old Gaza harbor for use as a terrorist training camp, as reported today by Al Monitor Palestine Pulse. A copy was also sent to EU foreign minister Catherine Ashton calling on the EU to take action.
The partial destruction of the ancient Anthedon Harbor—which includes the ruins of a Roman temple and archaeological remains from the Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras—comes exactly one year after the area was nominated by new UNESCO member state Palestine as a World Heritage site.
UN Watch, an independent Geneva-based monitoring group, called on Bokova to bring the issue before the UNESCO executive board now meeting in Paris.Although the biannual UNESCO meeting, which runs until April 26, lists five agenda items concerning Palestinian issues—which US Ambassador Killion has described as “highly politicized” and designed to “single out Israel”—there is currently no scheduled discussion to address the month-long Hamas bulldozing of the proposed heritage site. UN Watch’s letter as sent today to Ms. Bokova and Lady Ashton follows below."
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Palestina medlemsstat i UNESCO (uppdaterad)
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