Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike

Officials hurriedly remove nearly three decades of finds in high-risk operation'

An official in charge of nearly three decades of archaeological finds in Gaza has described how the artefacts were hurriedly evacuated from a Gaza City building threatened by an Israeli strike.

This was a high-risk operation, carried out in an extremely dangerous context for everyone involved - a real last-minute rescue," said Olivier Poquillon, director of the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem (EBAF), which housed the relics.