January 9, 2026 - Over the period 1970–1988, the Israeli authorities excavated a tunnel passing along the western wall of the Temple Mount, northwards from the prayer plaza of the Western Wall, that became known as the Western Wall Tunnel.

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".

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 ...

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....

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 ·

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.

Though the governorate did not specify the exact location of the Israeli excavations, Tel Aviv has for years dug tunnels beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque, actions Palestinians say are part of a wider plan to Judaize East Jerusalem.

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, ...

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 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 ...

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....

Since March, 1968, the Israeli ... digging and earth-moving equipment and made excavations in many parts of the sacred area. They dug tunnels beneath the foundations of Al Aqsa Mosque....

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.

March 27, 2008 - Amin al-Siyam says he is awakened nearly every night by the sound of Jewish settlers tunneling under his east Jerusalem house towards the Old City's deeply sensitive Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

May 28, 2025 - Netanyahu’s visit to the tunnel beneath Al-Aqsa and Ben-Gvir’s declaration permitting Jewish prayer at the site have sparked widespread outrage. ... More than 2000 extremist settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa compound on Monday. [Getty] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignited fury across the region after publishing a video of himself walking through a massive underground tunnel beneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday.

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June 15, 2024 - The researcher specialized in Jerusalem affairs, Fakhri Abu Diyab, revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities have dug new tunnels and carried out excavation operations under the western wall of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, heading towards ...

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.

August 4, 2020 - The first tunnel that was dug, dubbed the "Hasmonean Tunnel", is 500 metres long and located on the western side of the al-Aqsa Mosque, where the Moroccan Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City once stood.