JERUSALEM _ Palestine News Network
A tour, carried out by Palestinian figures for the first time, under the Old City of Jerusalem, from the Ayn Silwan area south of Al-Aqsa Mosque and towards the al-Buraq Square (the Western wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque) revealed a new tunnel of three sub-tunnels supervised by Jewish settlement associations.
Social media activists traded a video showing the tour, the cross-cutting tunnels and continuous work to unload the dust from the place beneath the antique Jerusalem.
The participants in the tour confirmed that this tunnel is different in form and design, and includes three tunnels on top of each other in rectangular and tiled, including the planting of Poles and construction of bases, and includes large equipment capable of removing dust and rocks from the inside of the tunnel outside through a carrier suspended in the roof of the tunnel empty Foreigners and settlers in containers transported to the west of the Holy City for inspection and screening before delivery.
According to the tour, the tunnel network is manifold and the viewer can not know the depth and direction after the entrance of the tunnels from the area of the eye, the walk is straight to a distance of more than 600 m, then the slope down 20 meters deep and then a depth of 13 meters and then fork in the tunnel 10 meters width, and the roving walking in the tunnel distance more About 200 m then begins to gradually fall into the depth and subsoil of the ground in an unclear way amid the noise of equipment and continuous drilling operations confirming that they are down the old town.
For his part, the expert in the history and architecture of Jerusalem´s director of tourism and Antiquities Yousef Natsheh, in a press statement, said that this tunnel that we saw is strange and different from the narrow and longitudinal tunnels engraved in the rocks we know, it is a wide tunnel deep and different power, and also confirms that Israel has not ceased Digging tunnels under the old City and Silwan since the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967.
"Israel is exploiting the current conditions for the implementation of most of its projects at the local, regional and international levels," he said.
"We do not forget to associate what is happening now with what was done a week before the association of the" al-´ad "settlement to manage archaeological and historical sites and excavations in the Silwan area and the Old city, although this continued legal debate in the" Israel ", and as usual all legal protests were ignored The order is fixed in favor of the "ad" with invalid legal procedures.
