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Parliamentarians Appeal to UNESCO to Protect Heritage Amid War

This is Beirut, 2024-11-07 14:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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In an urgent appeal to the international community, a group of Lebanese parliamentarians has called on UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to intervene and protect Lebanon’s cultural heritage sites, which are facing mounting threats due to the ongoing Israeli attacks and destruction. The MPs, led by Najat Saliba, delivered a message to ...

UNESCO Reports Surge in Killings of Journalists

This is Beirut, 2024-11-02 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, UN cultural body UNESCO said in a report Saturday, with almost all cases going unpunished. At 162 deaths, the number of journalists killed while working leaped 38 percent, the report found, calling the increase “alarming.” “In 2022 and ...

Archaeological Heritage: Open Letter from the Baalbeck International Festival

This is Beirut, 2024-11-01 10:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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We urgently appeal to the heads of diplomatic missions, international organizations, heritage specialists, and all influential stakeholders to intervene and halt the relentless assaults on the city of Baalbeck and its archaeological complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984. Recent aggressions near the Acropolis have inflicted ...

The Ancient City of Baalbeck Under Israeli Fire

This is Beirut, 2024-10-30 15:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israeli warplanes carried out more than 20 raids targeting the ancient city of Baalbeck within a period of half an hour on Monday afternoon, coinciding with Naim Qassem’s first address as Hezbollah’s new secretary general, succeeding the group’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah. Ahead of the raids, an evacuation order issued by ...

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