> Deputy Tourism Minister Muhammad Khela tells Al-Monitor, "We can't stand as an obstacle in the way of Palestinian resistance; we are all a part of a resistance project, yet we promise that the location will be limitedly used without harming it at all."

So Hamas admits what it's doing, though how you can bulldoze part of a designated archaeological site without "harming it at all" will take some explaining.

Facts are facts. Just how much of the site has been or is being damaged is not made clear, however.

If it were insignificant, Hamas would have said so.