7-27-2020 Thetunnels under Jerusalem seek to push forward an exclusively Jewish narrative ofthe city while putting Juman Abu Arafeh Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jerusalem-israeli-tunnels-archaeology-history-palestinians-silwan

Israel claims the excavations below Silwan and the Old City of Jerusalem are aimed at unearthing traces of the three-millennia-old First and Second Jewish Temples, which Jews believe to have been built where the Al-Aqsa Mosque now stands. To date, Israel has invested at least 40 million shekels ($11.7m) in the initiative. …The archaelogical project, however, has become a subject of global controversy and yet another source of suffering for Palestinians. .. Since the start of excavations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has called on Israel to halt its digging, stressing the illegality of such actions in occupied territory…Israeli excavations were halted only for several months in 1974, after Unesco suspended all aid to Israel. Later that year, the historic Jawahiriya school west of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound collapsed. …

Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

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