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Israeli Group Concerned over Fate of Jewish Archaeological Sites in West Bank under U.S. Peace Plan
(Reuters) Rinat Harash - Under the U.S. peace plan, a Palestinian state would be created in most of the West Bank. An Israeli advocacy group called "Safeguarding Eternity" is worried about what will happen to Jewish archaeological sites in those parts of the West Bank. It wants Israel to guarantee control over sites such as the remnants of hilltop Hasmonean and Herodian forts dating back two millennia, and hundreds of ruins from earlier Jewish rule. Assaf Avraham, an archaeologist at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, said, "If these areas are not in the hands or under the sovereignty of (authorities) that know how to take care of and maintain archaeological sites, and which have the motivation to do so, we really fear for these places."