{"id":567214,"date":"2026-07-30T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567214\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:10:10","slug":"israel-incensed-as-unesco-adds-lebanese-and-west-bank-sites-to-world-heritage-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567214\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Incensed as UNESCO Adds Lebanese and West Bank Sites to World Heritage List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">The Mount Amel Castles and the archaeological ruins of Sebastia are among six new heritage sites considered to be in danger. <\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/rhea-nayyar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rhea-nayyar-d-blank-r-g-s-500.jpg\" alt=\"Rhea Nayyar\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IDF_in_Beaufort_Castle_Lebanon_31.05.2026_4.jpg\" alt=\"Israel Incensed as UNESCO Adds Lebanese and West Bank Sites to World Heritage List\"\/><br \/>\n            Israeli military personnel onsite during the siege of Beaufort Castle, one of five historic military fortresses in Lebanon, on May 31, 2026 (photo IDF Spokesperson&#8217;s Unit via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:IDF_in_Beaufort_Castle_Lebanon_31.05.2026_4.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/the-shakers-werent-minimalists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Amid Israel&#8217;s targeted land seizures and ongoing military offensives, the Mount Amel Castles in Lebanon and the archaeological ruins of Sebastia in the Occupied West Bank are among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/facing-major-threats-six-new-sites-join-unescos-list-world-heritage-danger-three-them-emergency?ref=hyperallergic.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">six new locations<\/a> that were urgently added to UNESCO&#8217;s list of World Heritage Sites in Danger this week. <\/p>\n<p>The international agency immediately recognized both locations as vulnerable upon inscribing them as World Heritage Sites at the World Heritage Committee&#8217;s 48th session in Busan, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Israel condemned the designations, accusing UNESCO of \u201ccynical exploitation of cultural heritage for political purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Create a free account, or sign in to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p>Registered readers of Hyperallergic get access to a limited number of free articles every month, and the Hyperallergic Daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#00AEEE\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News The Mount Amel Castles and the archaeological ruins of Sebastia are among six new heritage sites considered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-567214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}