Tag Archives: excavation

Israeli authorities uproot trees in Bethlehem

Maan News Agency | June 27, 2013 Updated June 28, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities began digging up agricultural land and uprooting trees in the village of Khirbet al-Nahla in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem on Thursday. A Ma’an reporter said bulldozers were seen razing land on a 25 dunam plot of […]

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Dismantling Al-Aqsa: Israel initiates diggings near Al-Maghariba Gate for building of Jewish center

[ Reported by the PIC 13/06/2013 – 10:50 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli antiquities authority started new diggings near Al-Maghariba Gate square in Silwan district, north of the Aqsa Mosque, as a prelude to building a huge Jewish center. Wadi Hilwa information center said on Wednesday that the Israeli antiquities authority started its […]

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Occupation begins digging tunnel at the entrance of Silwan southern al-Aqsa

[ PIC 03/12/2012 – 06:15 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Information Center of Wadi Hilweh revealed that the occupation authorities have begun digging a tunnel connecting the Israeli outpost of “Ir David” and the Square of Wadi Hilweh neighborhood, at the entrance to the town of Silwan, south of Al Aqsa Mosque. According to […]

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#Israel Ethnic Cleansing the Dead: Muslim cemetery in Ayn al-Mansi village excavated by the occupation

[ PIC 15/10/2012 – 05:03 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and heritage revealed that the Israel Land Administration (ILA) started excavation works in the cemetery of the village of Ayn al-Mansi, depopulated in 1948, near the city of Haifa. The Foundation added, in a press statement on Sunday, that several graves were […]

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The Association of Palestinian Scholars issues plea to Muslims to protect al-Aqsa

Related: Israel’s Likud threatens to invade Al-Aqsa Mosque – Overview Monday, 13 February 2012 16:00 | MEMO The Association of Palestinian Scholars has issued a plea to the Muslim Ummah – its scholars, leaders, intellectuals, youth, and elderly across the world – to rise to the rescue of the al-Aqsa Mosque and to protect it […]

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Evacuation of Muslim graves ahead of hotel construction challenged in court

Related: Israel even ethnic cleansing cemetaries [ 25/09/2011 – 06:34 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Al-Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage condemned during an appeal heard Sunday by the Israeli Magistrate’s Court the ongoing removal of human remains from a Muslim graveyard in occupied Jaffa, where plans are underway for a Jewish tourist site. Al-Aqsa […]

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Hamas condemns accelerated Aqsa Mosque conversion drilling

[ 05/03/2011 – 03:40 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas has strongly condemned Israeli drilling operations on the historical Umayyad palaces running along the Aqsa Mosque as a ”blatant infringement on the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim people, and on the history and civilization of Jerusalem.” According to reports, Israel has been increasing construction of a […]

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