7-3-2019 How 'archaeological settlements' are destroying Palestinian homes Mersiha Gadzo Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/archaeological-settlements-destroying-palestinian-homes-190708113859297.html

Israel is creating an 'imaginary historical reality' with tunnel excavations in occupied East Jerusalem, NGO says.  Mizrachi, CEO of the Israeli NGO Emek Shaveh, told Al Jazeera the tunnels that Israel has excavated in and around the Old City and in Silwan are "problematic"....One of the largest spaces excavated in the Western Wall Tunnels is a 14th-century hammam (bathhouse) from the Mamluk period.There is no sign for the visitor to know it's a Mamluk structure or that it was built by the governor of Damascus, Sayf al-Din Tankaz, who was responsible for some of the more impressive buildings of the time, Mizrachi wrote in an article.  Yet, it's been converted into an exhibition on Jewish ancestry, dedicated to telling the story of Jewish pilgrimage to Jerusalem, "thus completely ignoring the historical significance of the site in which it is situated", Emek Shaveh wrote...Digging continues under Palestinian homes in Silwan to find historical proof of King David to market it for the "City of David", despite the fact archaeologists dispute the evidence of a kingdom in the 10th century BCE.

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