"We can expect everything to be destroyed, both the sites and the products of the excavations," says Jean-Baptiste Humbert, who has headed the Franco-Palestinian Archaeological Mission in Gaza since 1995 (source: OLJ).
The Gaza Strip is home to some architectural gems, such as the Church of St Porphyry belonging to the Arab-Orthodox community, the religious building at Mukheitim, the large Byzantine site at Blakhiyah (already heavily impacted), and Saint Hilarion (Tell Umm el-Amr), one of the largest Christian monasteries in the Middle East and the oldest in the Holy Land.