UNESCO Adds Lebanese, West Bank Sites to Endangered List The latest additions to UNESCO's World Heritage in Danger list are anything but surprising.
The inclusion of Lebanon's Beaufort Castle and the West Bank's Sebastia site on the agency's list of imperiled cultural treasures is a stark reminder that even in a world where cultural heritage is increasingly recognized as an essential part of our collective identity, politics can still reduce even the most revered sites to mere pawns.
The decision by UNESCO to add these two sites to its endangered list was taken during an emergency meeting in South Korea's Busan.