UN committee votes to list ruins of ancient Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine

A U.N. conference has voted to list ruins of the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine

The Associated PressA U.N. conference voted Sunday to list ruins of the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, which controls the territory and does not recognize a Palestinian state.

Israel quit UNESCO in 2019, accusing it of being biased against it and of diminishing its connection to the Holy Land. Israel also objected to UNESCO's acceptance of Palestine as a member state in 2011. But Israel remains a party to the World Heritage Convention, and it sent a delegation to the meeting in Riyadh.

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