Israel Stops Palestinian Attempt to Pave Over Biblical City of Gibeon

Israel Stops Palestinian Attempt to Pave Over Biblical City of Gibeon

Israeli authorities have halted what they described as a deliberate attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to destroy one of the most important biblical and archaeological sites in Judea. On Monday, IDF forces and the Binyamin Regional Council intervened after PA engineering crews began large-scale infrastructure work at the ancient site of Gibeon—known from the Bible as the city where Joshua made peace with the Gibeonites and where “the sun …