By Maya Gebeily and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south Lebanon on Saturday after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border, ...

BEIRUT: Hundreds of cultural professionals, including archaeologists and academics, called on the United Nations to safeguard war-torn Lebanon's heritage in a petition published Sunday ahead of a ...

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"Lebanon's cultural heritage at large is being endangered by recurrent assaults on ancient cities such as Baalbek, Tyre and Anjar, all UNESCO world heritage sites, as well as on other historic ...

144 - Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) (Lebanon) (C 850 ... files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its ...

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According to it, Lebanon's permanent mission to the United ... emergency meeting of the committee to protect the UNESCO World Heritage Site. "The government is extremely concerned about the ...

June 2003: World Heritage Centre reactive monitoring mission. The site is not protected by any legal instrument at the national level. No building regulations exist within the perimeter of the WH ...