Al-Quds Weekly News
12 August 2015, Issue no 74
Expert: Israel planning a multi-story building at Western Wall
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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- The Israeli authorities are planning to build a multi-story building inside the Western Wall plaza in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian academic told Ma’an on Wednesday. Dr. Jamal Amr, a professor of urban planning at Birzeit University and Jerusalem Foundation member, said that the six-story building would celebrate the heritage of the Jewish Temples, and would comprise a museum, prayer halls, and offices for right-wing Jewish organizations. The organizations are funding the project together with the Israeli government, Amr said, although his claims could not be verified.
rusalem,” Amr said, many of which he claimed date to the Abbasid and Umayyad eras, from roughly 660 to 1260 CE. The complex will also be connected to the series of underground tunnels which run beneath the Old City and to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
In the past, excavations inside the tunnels have damaged Islamic antiquities and Amr said that the blueprints for even collapsed, threatening Palestinian the building were prepared in buildings above. secret and revealed only after Amr warned that the new project would those leading the project began further “efface” Arab and Islamic features the application process for the inside the Old City. needed license. The Western Wall is the last remnant of The building is expected to cost the Second Temple, which was destroyed $13 million, at a size of 1,400 by the Romans in 70 AD. square meters and a height of 23 meters high, with two of the six It borders the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which is the third holiest site in Islam, and floors underground, he said. has historically been a flash point in the The complex will include a Palestinian-Israeli conflict. museum “housing antiquities Maa 12-8-2015 and belongings stolen from JeIssue No 74 // 12 August , 2015
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