August 25, 2025 - The excavation of a new tunnel began around nine months ago and threatens to destroy Islamic, Canaanite, and Roman archaeological sites.

June 29, 2026 - Starting at the Western Wall Plaza, workers dug northward, under the Old City's Muslim Quarter. Beginning in 1968, Israeli archaeologists began excavations at the foot of the Temple Mount, immediately south of the al-Aqsa Mosque, uncovering Roman, Umayyad and Crusader remains. In 1970, Israeli authorities commenced intensive excavations to the south and west of the compound. Over the period 1970–1988, the Israeli authorities excavated a tunnel ...

JERUSALEM, January 25, 2011 (WAFA) - Deputy director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority Uzi Dahari last night announced the completion of drilling a tunnel which runs from the Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Silwan to an area near Al-Aqsa Mosque.

July 13, 2009 - Ziyad Al-Hassan, executive director of International Al-Quds Foundation, has revealed that twenty tunnels have been dug under Al-Aqsa Mosque, some of them were opened to tourists and others were still under work.

June 21, 2022 - According to the chairman of the Palestinian Legislative Council’s al-Quds and al-Aqsa Committee, Mohammed Abu Halabiya, the Israeli underground tunnels, and diggings beneath the Aqsa Mosque pose a real threat to the future of the mosque.

The Israeli army dug tunnels · underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque · in the Old City of Jerusalem · in 1996. More recently, in May · 2023, the Israeli government · held an official meeting o · discuss annexation budgets in · one of the tunnels underneath · the Old City of Jerusalem in a ·

Adviser to the Jerusalem Governorate, Marouf Al-Rifai, warned in an interview with WAFA against the continuation of old and new Israeli excavation works under Al-Aqsa Mosque, particularly the digging of tunnels linking several colonial sites.

May 23, 2023 - He added: “The excavations carried ... further the Zionist project of Judaizing the region. About 12 tunnels have been dug under Al-Aqsa, some reaching 450 meters in length....

March 11, 2019 - The most ominous and menacing of ... they had discovered a tunnel beneath the Wailing Wall and the holy Dome of the Rock which extends between both, as well as beneath the foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque....

December 21, 2024 - Beyond them lay a 1,000-foot-long underground tunnel hugging the base of the famous Western Wall. This structure of mammoth stones enclosed one side of the sacred acropolis known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary — Haram al-Sharif or al-Aqsa ...

In fact, the excavations were not ... The most prominent excavation site in the vicinity of the Temple Mount is the Western Wall Tunnels, which were opened in 1996.[3] The major tourist attraction and archaeological site runs ...

August 4, 2020 - Abdel-Razzaq Matani, a Jerusalem-based archaeology researcher, told Middle East Eye that the exact number of tunnels dug under the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the Old City remains unknown.

Answer (1 of 7): This map from CNN Struggle for Peace clearly shows that it's next to, not under Al Aqsa.

September 1, 2025 - Earlier this month, The New Arab's ... of tunnels under Al-Aqsa, including an approximately 550-metre long tunnel that traverses Islamic, Canaanite and Roman archaeological sites....

5 days ago - Israeli prime minister joins Yom ... Rosenberg/Reuters) ... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured tunnels beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque as hundreds of Israeli settlers raided the Jerusalem holy site over the weekend....

October 6, 2019 - When Israel occupied the eastern ... excavation operations have been carried out, especially in the southern and western parts of Al-Aqsa Plaza, [1]and many tunnels have been dug under the walls of the Old City....

May 28, 2025 - The footage, timed with the 58th ... reported on Tuesday. ... The tunnel, which reportedly stretches from the neighbourhood of Silwan to the area directly underneath Al Aqsa, has long been a focal point of tension in ...

September 2, 2013 - Al Ray Agencies | Sep 2, 2013 Jerusalem, Alray -The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage on Monday said Israel is expanding the tunnel network under the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound through d…

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