Gaza’s archaeological heritage was destroyed in Israel’s genocide. These volunteers are trying to salvage it from the rubble.
As Israeli strikes leveled museums and 5,000-year-old sites across Gaza, volunteers dug through the rubble by hand to save what they could. Meanwhile, looted artifacts quietly resurfaced in a Paris exhibition.
It’s heartbreaking to see this devastation, and incredibly admirable that people are working so hard to recover these irreplaceable pieces of history. The scale of the loss is truly staggering.