Israel's "goal is establishing a fake Zionist narrative, namely the establishment of the alleged Temple in place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque" claims Palestinian Information Centre

Official PA TV program Good Morning Jerusalem, on a campaign against Israel establishing a public park in the Hinnom Valley south of the Old City of Jerusalem

Wadi Hilweh Information Center Director Jawad Siyam: “Like you said, these are just stones that were placed to take control of the cemetery…

We are talking about an area that is more or less the lands that remained in Silwan (a predominantly Arab neighborhood near the Old City of Jerusalem, built above ruins of ancient Jerusalem -Ed.)… and the occupation is attempting to take control of them and transfer them to the settlement colonialism…

And we also see the Al-Abbasiya neighborhood and Abu Tor neighborhood behind us…

For your information, in this area there are also lands that were occupied in 1948. We see the so-called Cinematheque, and these are lands that also historically belong to the Hinnom Valley.”

Official PA TV host: “The problem of the homes, the problem of properties being taken control of, the matter of the attempt to spread out, establish, and impose by force the Judaizing narrative on the town of Silwan – how can we talk about Silwan at this stage?”

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Jawad Siyam: “Regarding the tunnels and the Elad settlement association’s (i.e., an NGO promoting the Jewish connection to Jerusalem) attempt to take control of what is underground – the settlers’ association has set for itself the goal of establishing the fake Zionist narrative, namely the establishment of the alleged Temple in place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. And the entry to the alleged Temple was the Hinnom Valley neighborhood in Silwan, which has Umayyad palaces.

And the occupation changed many of the landmarks in this area, in the Umayyad palaces, and this is as a prelude to opening the three gates… to opening a gate to the El-Marwani Mosque (i.e., Solomon’s Stables) from the south, gates that were closed in the period of Saladin (i.e., medieval Muslim leader) for security reasons. He knew even hundreds of years ago that there are greedy aspirations in this direction, in order to remove the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

And he closed these gates, and now the settlement association is attempting to reopen these gates, and they prepared the steps so they would constitute the path to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the area (apparently refers to construction on cable car project that is to stop outside the Dung Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, not far from the southern side of the Temple Mount –Ed.)… and prepared the altar in the area of the Umayyad palaces. In addition there is the alleged tunnel, the so-called Pilgrimage Road tunnel (see note below –Ed.) to the alleged Second Temple.”

Saladin - Muslim leader and Sultan of Egypt and Syria who defeated the Christian crusaders and conquered Jerusalem in 1187. The Battle of Hattin (July 1187) took place in the Lower Galilee in what is today Israel and paved the way for Saladin’s reconquest of Jerusalem (October 1187).

Pilgrimage Road – US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, US Envoy Jason Greenblatt, and US Senator Lindsey Graham took part in the inauguration ceremony of the Pilgrimage Road underground archaeological site, located south of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2019. The excavated road was used by Jewish pilgrims visiting the Second Temple around the first century CE, and the Arab neighborhood of Silwan has since been built above it.