heritage
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CultureVolunteers Salvage Gaza's Ancient Heritage From Rubble Amid War
Heritage Guardians use bare hands to rescue artifacts while officials condemn the removal of treasures to France as theft rather than protection.
2 min
CultureVolunteers gather the stones of a bombed Deir al-Balah mosque
Marble columns and cut stone from the Abu Salim Mosque, built in 1951 and repaired twice since, are being lifted out and stored so that whatever is rebuilt can be built from the mosque itself.
3 min
CultureIn Surif, stone walls mark generations of work on the land
The town northwest of Hebron reads its own history off the terraces its families built by hand, and off the olive and fig trees planted between them.
2 min
CultureWomen in the southern Hebron hills turn a cave into a workshop
The project combines heritage preservation with income.
1 min