Gaza's architectual heritage fades, but one man resists A surprise awaits beyond a black door adorned with a silver lotus flower at the end of a tangle of alleyways in Gaza's chaotic Old City. Through it sits a small, Levantine-style palace, one of the rare vestiges of the city's architectural heritage, battered by war, time, population pressure and simple indifference. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.