Israel ironically is a signatory to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of armed conflict.

Rights advocates call it a “blatant violation of international humanitarian law”

200 monuments belonging to Christian and Islamic history and architecture in the besieged strip have been either completely or partially destroyed as a result of indiscriminate Israeli strikes.

Many of us must have referred to a particular street, shop, shrine, museum, library, mosque, church, or school while talking about an incident or reminiscing about something in the past.

These landmarks act as mileposts and memories get weaved around them. But what if these physical markers that people associate with are wiped out?

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