Tel Aviv also objected to UNESCO's acceptance of Palestine as a member state in 2011. But Israel remains a party to the World Heritage Convention, and it sent a delegation to the meeting in Riyadh.

Tell es-Sultan is one of the largest settlement mounds in the Jordan Valley and belongs to historical Jericho.The site has been occupied since the proto-Neolithic, with only a few phases of abatement.

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