Palestinian city on UNESCO list irks Israel

 Unesco on Friday declared the Old City of Hebron an endangered world heritage site, sparking outrage from Israel in a new spat with Palestinians at the international body.

The UN’s cultural arm voted 12 to three — with six abstentions —  to give heritage status to Hebron’s Old City in the occupied West Bank, which is home to more than 2,00,000 Palestinians and a few hundred Israeli settlers.

The vote drew a sharp denunciation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who described it as “another delusional decision by Unesco”. “This time they ruled the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron is a Palestinian site, meaning not a Jewish site, and that it is in danger,” he said.