Long-neglected Gaza heritage wilts in war
 

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.Q...705399d513.jpgOne direct hit destroyed the Omari mosque in Jabaliya and dealt a**ther blow to Gaza's beleaguered heritage. A modern building was added several years ago, but the Omari had been one of Gaza's few remaining historic buildings. The narrow sliver of territory tucked into the eastern Mediterranean between Egypt and Israel has been home to settled communities since at least 3,300 BC, historians say, governed by the Caananites, Pharoahs, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines before the arrival of Islam in the seventh century AD. "When you think of Gaza you never think of history, or ancient Gaza or archaeology, you always think food, medicine, refugee camps, Hamas." To compensate for the lack of state-funded museums, her father started collecting artefacts from the Canaanite era to World War I that he unearthed while working as an engineer.




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