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PARIS: The UN’s cultural agency on Friday placed a Lebanese castle recently seized by Israeli forces and an archaeological site in the occupied West Bank on its list of World Heritage in Danger.
Beaufort Castle, a Crusader fortress also known as Qalaat al-Shakif, was captured by Israeli forces in May.
It is one of five castles in the Jabal Amel area of southern Lebanon listed together by Unesco. The mountainous area has come under repeated Israeli bombardment during the war.
Unesco said the fortresses had sustained damage and faced ongoing threats from the conflict “serious enough to justify resorting to an emergency procedure”.
