August 25, 2025 - The secret tunnel, which is approximately 550 metres long, threatens to destroy Islamic, Canaanite and Roman archaeological sites, as Israeli authorities attempt to whitewash the history of the area with "Biblical Museums".

May 31, 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 ...

He stressed that the digging of tunnels in Silwan and under al-Haram al-Sharif, which includes Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, “aims to create a structural link between the sites of the so-called City of David and Al-Aqsa Mosque in a step towards building the temple and expelling ...

Answer (1 of 6): There are tunnels and caves near the mosque that predate it by hundreds or thousands of years. Some of those tunnels and caves are open to the public for tours. The Waqf that administers the site has also built underground, and has dumped archaeological remains (including remai...

Most of these tunnels were originally historical waterways that were dried up and converted into tunnels, museums, and synagogues. One of these tunnels, known as the "Jabbana Market," was transformed into a Jewish tourist trail, threatening the infrastructure under Al-Aqsa Mosque.

A 150 meters long tunnel · in Akka, used as a strategic · passage to link the Templers · fortress with the city’s port. It · was constructed during the · Crusades, after the Templers left · their headqrarters in Jerusalem, in what they call “Temple · mount”, claiming that the Temple · of Solomon was under Al-Aqsa ·

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....

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 ...

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....

August 4, 2020 - Most of the tunnels are concentrated below the western ramparts of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the Western Wall - known to Muslims as the al-Buraq wall - and below the Umayyad palaces south of the mosque, extending to the centre of Silwan.

June 21, 2022 - MP Abu Halabiya announced on Monday that stones recently fell from an Aqsa Mosque wall as the result of Israeli digging underneath the area called the Umayyad Palaces, which stretches over 800 meters between Ein Silwan and the Buraq Wall.

Referred to by its settler funders as Pilgrims’ Road or Pilgrimage Road, the 600-meter-long tunnel begins in the Wadi Hilweh section of Silwan and runs under the Old City walls to the Western Wall, the most important Jewish holy site.

1 week ago - At times, restrictions have prevented ... women under 45 from entering. Sometimes the restrictions are enforced on the occasion of Friday prayers, other times they are over an extended period of time. Restrictions are most severe for Gazans, followed by restrictions on those from West Bank. The Israeli government states that the restrictions are in place for security reasons. Until 2000, non-Muslim visitors could enter the Aqsa Mosque by getting a ticket from the Waqf. That procedure ended when the Second Intifada began. Over two decades later, the Waqf still hopes negotiations between Israel

October 6, 2019 - When Israel occupied the eastern part of the city of Jerusalem, including the Old City, in 1967, it started implementing its plan of changing the Arab character of the city to reflect a more Jewish view. Many 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.

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 ...

September 16, 2025 - According to Peace Now, an Israeli campaign group that supports Palestinian rights, the tunnel stretches 600 metres from Silwan, running beneath Palestinian homes and the Old City walls, ending close to the foundations of the Western Wall, part ...

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