Heritage Sites of Palestine

St. Hilarion Monastery
Discovered just twelve years in the middle of the now blockaded Gaza Strip, Tell Umm el-Amr, also known as the monastery to Saint Hilarion, is possibly the biggest site of its kind in all of the Occupied Territories. A Roman-era pile, constructed at some point between the 4th and 7th centuries A.D., it's ripe for tourism and further archaeological study. But the ongoing stifling of Gaza by Israel's blockade and the intermittent bombings of the Strip by Israeli helicopter gunships imperil the ruins.

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