Jerusalem 'expert': Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque are in danger from Israeli archaeological excavations
Headline: "The occupation's excavations are threatening the neighborhoods of the Old [City of] Jerusalem"
"Anyone who visits the Old City of Jerusalem, when they turn south from Damascus Gate via Hagai Street, reaches the Chain [Gate] market and Hawsh Al-Nayrasat, one of the neighborhoods near the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount),which is in danger of being destroyed as a result of the occupation's excavations underneath it(sic., Israel does not excavate under the Temple Mount; see note below). The lives of the residents of the neighborhoods of the Chain Gate, Hawsh Al-Nayrasat, the Al-Qarmi neighborhood, and other neighborhoods around the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Silwan from the south are endangered as a result of collapses due to the excavations.
The same murderer, the occupation, which is responsible for the crime of cracks appearing in the houses, gave the residents of Hawsh Al-Nayrasat notices on the pretext of fearing for their lives…
Jerusalem affairs expert Fakhri Abu Dhiab said: 'The effects of the excavations that are taking place throughout the [Old] City, and specifically in the southern Old City and Silwan, have begun to be widely exposed. At the moment, we fear for the fate of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as these are ideological excavations with many goals, and foremost among them blurring the Arab-Islamic archaeological remains in the holy city[of Jerusalem]. There is a wealth of archaeological remains under the ground, which the occupation is destroying and attempting to create a fabricated culture, after it did not succeed in proving it was in the area (sic., there is an abundance of archaeological proof of the presence of Jews in Jerusalem and Israel).'
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Abu Dhiab explained that thousands of tons of dirt and rocks have been removed from under the houses of the residents of Jerusalem in the Old City neighborhoods and in the Silwan neighborhood south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and that ruptures and cracks have appeared in many houses. He added that instead of the occupation ceasing to cause them, it is giving eviction notices for the houses, whose basic goal is to expel the residents of Jerusalem and house settlers in their place."
Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are endangered by excavations