{"id":15471,"date":"2023-12-29T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palestine.icomos.org\/?post_type=newss&p=15471"},"modified":"2024-07-27T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T17:50:43","slug":"icomos-palestines-statement-regarding-the-continuation-of-genocidal-war-on-gaza-strip-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/palestine.icomos.org\/ar\/newss\/icomos-palestines-statement-regarding-the-continuation-of-genocidal-war-on-gaza-strip-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"ICOMOS Palestine’s statement regarding the continuation of genocidal war on Gaza Strip in Palestine (29 December 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

29th of December 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

ICOMOS Palestine\u2019s statement regarding the continuation of genocidal war on
\nGaza Strip in Palestine<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the eighty-third day of the aggression against the Gaza Strip, more scourges of war are
\nbeing waged by the Israeli occupation army, along with the American and Western allies against
\nthe Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The West Bank and Jerusalem are exposed, which has
\nso far claimed about eighty thousand lives killed, injured, and missing under the rubble,
\ndisplacing more than 1.9 million Palestinians from their homes and destroying about 70% of
\nresidential buildings in the Gaza Strip, destroying the vast majority of schools, universities,
\nkindergartens, shelter homes, and hospitals. In addition to a high percentage of homes and
\nresidential buildings, Infrastructure in cities, villages, and camps in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Several sources of human heritage in Palestine with architectural, historical, aesthetic, religious,
\nand cultural values were exposed, during the aggression on the Gaza Strip \u2013 and are still being
\nsubjected to intentional and systematic destruction and obliteration, which has caused all of
\nhumanity to lose a heritage that it can be proud of and cherish.<\/p>\n

We received information about massive destruction in the Pasha Palace Museum<\/strong>; the official
\nmuseum in Gaza City. It consists of two historical buildings that are testimony to the region\u2019s
\nrich cultural heritage and the history of diverse civilizations. This palace is one of the few
\nremaining examples of Islamic architecture in Gaza. The Pasha Palace was built in the period
\nbetween 1260 and 1277 during the Mamluk era. Moreover, it is located in the area of Al- the
\nDaraj quarter, which is full of ancient buildings close to the Great Al-Omari Mosque also
\ndestroyed at the beginning of December as reported in Report#2.<\/p>\n

Gaza\u2019s Hamam al-Samra<\/strong>, a later on, Hamam Al-Samra, or the Samra Bath is one of the main
\nand few remaining Ottoman architectural sites in Gaza. Though it existed for hunderds of years
\ntill the beginning of the war, it was operational. Al-Qaysariyya Market<\/strong> was built in the
\nfourteenth century AD as an integral part of the southern entrance of the Great Al-Omari
\nMosque. The market has been significantly destroyed; the Israeli army\u2019s destruction of heritage
\nresources in the Gaza Strip extended to the West Bank, where on 12\/24\/2023, Israeli settlers,
\nwith the protection of the Israeli occupation army, seized a large geographical area in the
\nvillage of Battir and placed mobile homes in it, and bulldozed the site, taking into consideration
\nthat Battir has been registered by the Palestinian government since 2014 on the List of World
\nHeritage in Danger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The actions carried out by the Israeli occupation army in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank
\nsupported by the Israeli settlers, and the destruction they are inflicting on human heritage are
\nconsidered a full-fledged war crime and a clear violation of charters, agreements, and
\ninternational law, especially those devoted to the situation of armed conflict, such as the
\nFourth Geneva Convention of 1949, the 1954 Hague Convention and its Second Protocol of
\n1999, the World Cultural, and Natural Heritage Convention of UNESCO on 16 November
\n.1972<\/strong><\/p>\n

ICOMOS Palestine is no longer convinced and will not agree with the timid statements issued by
\ninstitutions related to cultural heritage and human rights. Rather, it clearly demands to stop the
\nwar immediately, that the perpetrators of this destruction be criminalized and brought to the
\nInternational Criminal Court, and that they be held responsible for their actions that led to a
\nchange in the cultural landscape that we have inherited over thousands of years.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15727,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-15471","newss","type-newss","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestine.icomos.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/15471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestine.icomos.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestine.icomos.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palestine.icomos.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palestine.icomos.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}