The settlers who stormed Al -Aqsa on the first and second of this June were not satisfied with desecration Al -Aqsa Mosque With their rituals and prayers that they performed on the occasion of the Jewish “Feast of the Feast”, they even deliberately raised the controversy by photographing a video clip showing a floor that is subject to a restoration process in front of the door of the two cats.
They sent the clip to the Israeli journalist, Arnon Seagal, who is one of the most prominent activists Temple groupsAnd that is continuously stormed by Al -Aqsa and organizes indicative tours in its arenas, and sings the achievements of extremists in it.
Seagal published a picture of the site that is under the restoration, and wrote a news on the Israeli news site “The First Source” website, in which he stated that “the Jews who ascended to the Temple Mount (the Torah name of the Al -Aqsa Mosque) were amazed to see a new plaster covering old floors on the western side, which is the ground that Lynte Rettaire attributes to the Herod era.”
Intervention
Siggal added that he went to the Israeli Antiquities Authority and asked her whether the restoration that takes place on this site is legal, “because the restoration work that is carried out in an archaeological site is used for religious purposes that needs the approval of a ministerial committee and accurate supervision of the Israeli Antiquities Authority.”
The response of the Antiquities Authority came as follows, “The restoration part was a threat to safety, as a decrease as a result of the lack of a stone paving, and the decrease has long been filed with modern concrete, causing the destruction of ancient stone paving.”
This Israeli body continued that the restoration work was conducted in full coordination with it and with the Israeli police, which visited the site several times and examined the situation with precision and comprehensiveness, and the Antiquities Authority decided to put a certain filling material to prevent further damage that the regular concrete might be caused to the adjacent stones, and added that “in the coming days, these materials will be sanded, and stone panels are placed over it, so that the restoration is perfectly mixed with paving On the site.
Al -Jazeera Net went to the researcher in the history of Jerusalem, Ihab Al -Jallad, and I initially asked him about the reasons for the landing of the floor in this location specifically, and said that this region is very close to the western wall of the mosque, which passes below. Western tunnelTherefore, the excavations were and still are always present, in addition to those traditional excavations in the Western Wall area that were carried out in the seventies, eighties and 1990s of the last century, there are other fossils below.
These fossils are, according to the Jerusalem researcher, in the lower tunnel, and fossils are added to it below the square Brightness And they want to raise the square to be below a hall, and this is mostly that certainly affects the western side in general.
The ground is purely Islamic
With regard to the huge stone floor that landed near the Bab al -Qatanin, the executioner confirms that it is from the time of Nasser Muhammad bin Qalawun in the Mamluk period and is about 700 years old, and was built in 1321 AD.
“Earthquakes, fossils, and pressure represented by people walk on these floors for centuries, the surrounding buildings and the absence of continuous restorations, all of this leads to weakening these stones and disturbing the ground layers below them.”
He added that the failure of the excavations in conjunction with the prevention of restoration operations is the most important factors that led to the decline in this ground.
He referred to the previously mentioned news from the “First Source” website, in which the writer acknowledged the cement in the past and that it was bad, which caused an imbalance in the large tiles, and prompted the Israeli Antiquities Authority to provide the Islamic endowments with a special substance that was poured to place the tiles over it.
When asked about the information attributed by Siggal to the Israeli archaeologist Lyn Retter, in which he claims that this stone ground is from the era of Herod, and the journalist in the title of the news indicated with a question, “How did the stones that Herod’s workers put on the Temple Mountain were replaced by two thousand years ago with concrete?” The growing current of religious Zionism, and therefore “fabricated and developed.”
Part of restoration and maintenance work in the Marwani chapel, supervised by the Al -Aqsa Mosque Reconstruction Committee, affiliated to the Islamic Endowments Department.
It is noteworthy that the Marwani chapel was abandoned and closed for hundreds of years, and it was restored and opened in front of the worshipers in 1996, which is the largest covered area inside the Al -Aqsa Mosque. pic.twitter.com/hL6b1zNTDV
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It is not the first falsification
This is not the first time that the researcher and the archaeologist tries to attribute landmarks within the Al -Aqsa for the period of the temple, and he said about the brackets of the small closed gates for a long time on the eastern side between the eastern stairs and the southeastern angle, they are gates from which the owners of musicians who were blowing the trumpet in the era of the temple came out.
While he mentioned these arches – according to the executioner – Mujir al -Din al -Hanbali in the late 15th century AD and said it was the “cumulative” angle and “BustamiaAnd it is Islamic corners built under the honorable rock.
The same archaeologist invented another story, claiming that the northeastern wall of a plate The Dome of the Rock It includes stones dating back to the time of “Herod”, and this is all that has no basis.
As for the Israeli police and the authority of the Israeli antiquities themselves with the restoration operations of the Al -Aqsa Mosque, the executioner indicated that the endowments cannot currently work to restore anything in the mosque except with the presence of these two sides, and thus either deal with them or the restoration cannot be done.
This policy was followed after restoration Marwani chapel He opened his giant gates in 1999, which prompted the hard -line Orthodox Jews to enact a law in the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) at the time, which was called “preventing the destruction of the effects of the structure”, and claimed in their proposal that the dust that was removed from the Marwani chapel and was thrown abroad through which the old monuments were destroyed.
This claim is refuted by the fact that the soil that was taken out of the Marwani chapel is not an original dust, but was brought from the outside in the past to cover and build this chapel, according to the executioner.
“Endowments are required for their role”
Consequently, the actual intervention of the occupation authorities began in the restoration operations in Al -Aqsa in 2003 with Israel’s control of entry and exit from the mosque, and the actual tightening of the reconstruction and restoration operations since 2015 with the prohibition of Rabat in it, according to the executioner.
Al -Maqdisi researcher concluded his speech to Al -Jazeera Net by touching on the repercussions of the restoration work as dangerous, because any historical building -especially Al -Aqsa, which is located between valleys and an unstable area because of its construction on settlements that are naturally moved with the occurrence of earthquakes -must be constantly restored.
He added that the Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem must demand the international authorities to pressure for the restoration, and that they have a plan for that after conducting a comprehensive survey of the sites and issuing a report on the aspects of weakness and places that need maintenance and restoration, according to a certain gradient of the most dangerous dangerous so that people know the real maximum status and they are not surprised when anything occurs.