Municipal archive in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine
TheCentral Archives of Gaza City (Arabic :أرشيف غزة المركزي ,arshif ghaza almarkazi archive and study centre inGaza ,Palestine . The centre was destroyed in late November 2023 during theGaza war .
The Central Archives were kept within the administrative buildings ofGaza City .[ 1] urban development .[ 1] [ 2]
Al Jazeera reported the building had been targeted repeatedly since theOctober 7 attacks .[ 1] The New Arab [ 2] Middle East Eye [ 3] International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos) reported the archives completely destroyed.[ 4] Birzeit University and local press on social media, showing the vast majority of flammable material reduced to ashes.[ 3] Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from thePalestinian Research Centre in Beirut.[ 2]
Gaza Municipality said that the bombing caused a major fire in the Municipality headquarters, according to thePalestinian Information Center .[ 5] [better source needed
Responses by international archivist and history associations [ edit ] TheInternational Council on Archives put out a statement condemning "all actors in the region" drawing onThe Universal Declaration on Archives .[ 6] Oral History Society , said it would "do its best to support the recording and remembering of that history when the rebuilding of Gaza can begin".[ 7] Association of Canadian Archivists ,[ 8]
Efforts to record and archive remaining digitized archives involve the online repository Palestinian Nexus.[ 9]
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