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Al-Aqsa : The Mugrabim ramp is not part of the Temple Mount

munaeem | 09 February, 2007 03:55

On February 4 renovations began on the Mugrabim ramp in Jerusalem , which leads from the paved area in front of the Western Wall to the Temple Mount 's Mugrabim Gate. The Mugrabim ramp is part of an earthen embankment and was damaged by an earthquake and the winter storms of 2004, and is currently in danger of collapse.

The Israeli Antiquities Authority is undertaking rescue excavations before implementing plans for constructing a new bridge to replace the old one. The Mugrabim ramp is not part of the Temple Mount and is located outside its boundaries .
 

Israel Antiquities Authority
Left: The collapse of the Mugrabim ramp. Right: the Mugrabim ramp,
view from the Archaeological Park .

Heads of the Muslim Waqf (religious endowment) and other Palestinian clerics condemned the construction work and called for the masses to defend the mosque. Prominent among them was a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) cleric named Taysir al-Tamimi ,  who called upon Palestinians to go to Al-Aqsa immediately “to protect it from the bulldozers of the Israeli occupation…which are working to destroy Al-Aqsa mosque.” Al-Tamimi appealed to the Islamic nation and the Mecca summit participants to close ranks because, he claimed, the mosque was “in danger” and “might collapse” (Al-Jazeera TV, February 6).


False claim : “Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger,” Taysir al-Tamimi
(Al-Arabiya TV, February 6)

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