Lebanon’s culture minister told AFP on Friday that Israeli strikes on the country’s south were putting heritage sites in “serious danger,” adding that a castle was directly hit.
A ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was supposed to have taken effect on April 17 but has never been observed. Both sides accuse each other of violating it and justify their attacks by the other camp’s alleged breaches.
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“Bombings fell very close to the ruins of Tyre,” a UNESCO World Heritage site, Culture Minister Ghassan Salame said.
The medieval Beaufort castle overlooking Nabatieh was “directly hit... we know that several bombs fell on this fortress,” he added.
