OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Al-Quds newspaper revealed Friday secret documents indicating that the Israeli municipal council in occupied Jerusalem and the interior ministry’s planning and construction committee assigned a committee to Judaize the whole Al-Buraq square (wailing wall).
The newspaper said that the committee was composed of head of the municipal council Nir Barakat, his deputy, the head of the planning and construction committee, the rabbi in charge of the Buraq wall, and representatives of Zionist companies.
This committee met three times between November 2009 and January 2010 and approved plans to construct new buildings in the Buraq square and expand Jewish structures already built illegally in the area.
These plans include a three-story building, a museum for the Jewish religion, and the expansion of Davidson center located in the so-called archaeological park, south of the Buraq wall.
In later meetings, the committee will discuss other plans to build new buildings in the Buraq wall, according to the newspaper.
Lawyer Qais Nasser, a specialist in settlement affairs, told the newspaper that the work of this committee is not legal at all because it lays plans in compliance with the Judaization goals of the Israeli government and the interests of the Zionist companies that want to turn the Buraq wall and the area around the Aqsa Mosque into a shrine for the Jewish people.
He noted that the committee did not tell the Jordanian and Palestinian sides about these plans and ignored the UNESCO which classified Jerusalem as a world heritage property that must be protected according to its charter issued in 1972.
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