The archaeological site at the Palestinian village of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, is one of six sites added to UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger on Sunday, and one of three inscribed on an emergency basis. File Photo by Alaa Badarneh/EPA
July 26 (UPI) -- UNESCO's World Heritage Committee on Sunday added six new sites to its List of World Heritage in Danger, including three in Palestine, South Sudan and Lebanon on an emergency basis due to imminent threats.
Meeting in Busan, South Korea, the committee took emergency action to inscribe the Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape in South Sudan, the Mount Amel Castles in Lebanon and the village of Sebastia in Palestine onto the List of World Heritage in Danger.
The committee also added the already recognized Ancient City of Taurica Chersonese and its Chora in Russian-occupied Ukraine, the Historic Inner City of Paramaribo in Suriname and the city of Tyre, Lebanon, to the "danger" list, citing "serious threats to the values that justified their inscription in the first place."
The emergency procedures are necessary due to "numerous crises of diverse nature, including armed conflict and climate change, that are heavily affecting heritage and exposing it to serious threats," committee members said in a statement.
