"UNESCO Designates Ancient Jericho Ruins as Palestinian World Heritage Site"

UNESCO has voted to list the ruins near the ancient city of Jericho as a "World Heritage Site in Palestine," a move that is likely to anger Israel. The decision was made at a UN conference in Saudi Arabia and refers to the Tel es-Sultan archaeological site, which contains prehistoric ruins dating back to the ninth millennium B.C. Israel, which controls the territory, does not recognize a Palestinian state and withdrew from UNESCO in 2019 over previous steps it deemed as diminishing the Jewish connection to the Holy Land. Jericho joins three other UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Palestine.