Residents of an African community's suburb adjacent to the Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Jerusalem said they could not sleep because of excavations under their homes that go on round the clock.
Hosni Shahin, one of the residents, told the Palestinian Information Center on Monday that the sound of digging had been going on for the past two years and that the community had repeatedly protested against such diggings.
He said that the sound of digging increased at the start of this year, apparently, he added, the Jews were using bigger digging equipment.
Shahin feared that 20 houses in the suburb might collapse as a result and that 150 people living them would become homeless.
Last autumn, the Palestine Awqaf and Heritage Department issued a report stating the intention of the invaders' authorities to dig 2 tunnels to the quarter "Sharaf" in the Old City of Jerusalem.
This quarter, located west of the Mosque of Al-Aqsa, was occupied by the Zionists in 1967, along with other Arab territories of the West Bank, and named "Jewish". All local people were deported.
The length of the first tunnel is 56 meters, the second is 22 meters long, Palestinian sources reported. In the vertical tunnel, the Jews intend to install an electric elevator, and in the in the horizontal one, an escalator. Thus Zionists want to facilitate access of settlers and foreign tourists from the Sharaf neighborhood to the al-Buraq wall that the Jews proclaimed "wailing", and to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The report says that the invaders' administration intends to "strengthen the control over the wall of Al-Buraq and the Al-Aqsa Mosque"; $ 2.5 million were allocated to implement this plan.
Currently, a network of tunnels has been dug under the Al-Aqsa Mosque that is one of the three major holy places of Islam (along with holy places in Mecca and Medina). A synagogue and a Jewish museum have been placed under the temple.
The Jews claim that a so-called "King Solomon's Temple" was supposedly located there.
However, Jewish archeologists conducting excavations in the mosque for many years, still could not find any evidence of even a meager trace of that fantasy "temple" and of any Jewish presence in the area in general.
All they find are relics of Islamic, Arab and Roman cultures.
Jewish plans for the zionisation of the occupied territories also include a construction of 73 thousand houses for settlements in the west bank of the river Jordan.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
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