UNESCO World Heritage sites in Iran, Israel, Lebanon damaged during military strikes

The New York Times and The Art Newspaper have published reports of damage to several important Iranian cultural heritage sites in Tehran and Isfahan since the U.S.-Israeli strikes began on February 28. 

"A spokeswoman for UNESCO, the United Nations agency that seeks to protect global culture, said her organization had been able to verify damage at several World Heritage sites in Iran," the Times writes. "They include the Golestan Palace; the Chehel Sotoun pavilion of the Persian Garden, the Masjed‑e Jameh of Isfahan, as well as on buildings located near the buffer zone of the prehistoric sites of the Khorramabad Valley."

Besides significant heritage sites, nearly 10,000 civilian sites have reportedly been damaged or destroyed in Iran, resulting in more than 1,300 civilian deaths, according to Al Jazeera.

In Tel Aviv, meanwhile, an Iranian missile strike killed one person and damaged a historic Bauhaus building in the White City UNESCO World Heritage site, the Times of Israel reports...