Aqsa Foundation: Land caved in because of IOA excavations

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[ 03/01/2010 - 10:42 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) has said that part of the main street in Silwan suburb in occupied Jerusalem had caved in due to the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) intensified digging underneath the neighborhood.

The AFEH said in a statement on Saturday that the collapse caused a two meter long and one meter wide hole that was one and a half meters deep.

The IOA is digging a network of tunnels under the Silwan suburb that extends around 700 meters all leading to the holy Aqsa Mosque, it said, adding that the excavations were still ongoing till the present day.

AFEH said that the IOA was digging out big quantities of sand and stones from the excavation sites and moving them to unknown locations.

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