Destruction of Heritage

Airstrike Damage

☪️Othman bin Qashqar Mosque—Built1220 AD (Damaged in an airstrike)

☪️Sayad al-Hashim Mosque—Built 1850 (Damaged in airstrike)

☪️Library of Great Omari Mosque—Built 1277 CE (Destroyed in an airstrike)

✝️Byzantine Church of Jabalia—Built 444 (Destroyed by air strike)

✝️St Hilarion Monastery—Built in the 4th century (Damaged)

✝️The Church of St Porphyrius—Built 1160 (Destroyed, killing 17 Palestinian Christians)

✝️Holy Family Church—Built 1938 (Damaged in airstrike)

Mathaf al-Funduq Museum—Built 1685 (Destroyed by shelling)

Rashad El Shawa Cultural Center—Built 1985 (Destroyed)

Qasr al-Basha—Built Mid-13th Century (Damaged by Israeli airstrike) 

Anthedon Harbour—Built 2000BC (Destroyed by shelling) 

Hammam al-Sammara pre-Islam—Built (Destroyed) 

Tell el-Ajjul fortified city—Built 1000AD (Damaged)

The Rafah Museum—held ancient coins, copper plates and jewelry (Destroyed in airstrike)

Al Qarara Museum—held about 3,000 Canaanite artefacts (Destroyed in airstrike)

Civilian Vandalism

☪️✝️Price Tag attacks - In what are known as price tag attacks, Israeli settlers set fire to mosques and churches, spray painting the slogan price tag, implying it to be the price of Palestinian attacks on Israelis. This has also happened to cars and a Palestinian cherry orchard. (𓃠,𓃠)

☪️Al-Aqsa Mosque fire - In 1969 Australian Jewish man, Denis Michael Rohan, burnt the Al-Aqsa Mosque, before being deported back to Australia on the grounds of being mentally unstable.

✝️Tabgha Church fire - In 2015 Yinon Reuveni was convicted for setting fire to church at Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus is said to have performed the miracle of the loaves and fishes. "Idols will be cast out or destroyed" had been on its walls.

✝️Gethsemane Church Attempted Arson - In 2020 an Israeli settler attempted to burn down Gethsemane Church in occupied East Jerusalem, where Jesus is believed to have been betrayed by Judas. (𓃠)

✝️Vandalization of Prison of Christ Church - In 2023 an Israeli settler vandalized Prison of Christ Church in Jerusalem before trying to burn it. The man in question was deemed by the police to be mentally unstable. (𓃠)

✝️Vandalization of the Armenian Patriarchate - In 2023 Israeli fanatics attacked the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem, removing the Armenian flag, while spraying “Death to the Arabs and Gentiles,” “Death to Christians,” and “Death to the Armenians” on its walls.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers have been documented attacking Palestinians on their lands, stealing their olives and setting fire to their groves.