Cultural Genocide by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – PCHR

55. Israel’s strategical targeting of cultural and historical sites forms part of a state policy, enabling Israel to gurther its settler colonial prokect and constituting a core method of continuous ethnic cleansig against the Palestinian people since 1948. The current intentional and systematic destruction of cultural and historical property in the Gaza Strip emerfges within this context, with the sole objective to erase the identity and historical heritage of the Palestinian people wha are the indigenous inhabitants on this land, plausibly amounting to a cultural genocide.