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One wall collapsed in al-Aqsa Mosque
The Islamic al-Awqaf department in Jerusalem have accused the Israeli authorities of being behind the collapse of an internal wall in al-Aqsa mosque yesterday after it had prevented its engineers form maintaining it."Itâs the Jews fault!" The collapsed wall is situated near the Islamic museum on a hill in old Jerusalem where the mosque is situated. This wall is considered new in comparison to other parts of the mosque. The director of the Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem Adnan al-Husseini said that the wall collapsed as a result of "the Israeli intervention in our work and preventing us from maintaining it after we stated it was in an urgent need for a rapid action to prevent its collapse." Hummm, I seem to remember that the Israelis warned that part of the mosque wall was in danger of collapse because of internal renovations quite some time ago. The muslims in charge said no and told the Israelis to butt out. The Israeli archeologist Eliat Mazar had visited the site following the collapse directly. She also said "it seems terrible. This collapse might cause a terrific series of collapses." If this "holy" mosque collapses, especially during prayer services, you know who gets blamed. Posted by: Steve 2003-09-24 |
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