Major dig planned for Western Wall

Arutz Sheva:

Israel is planning a major archaeological dig under the Western Wall (Kotel) plaza, opposite the Temple Mount, officials announced Thursday. The excavations will create an archaeological park directly underneath the area where worshippers currently stand while praying at the Kotel.

The current prayer area will remain open, supported by pillars, while a new area will be added underneath, at the level at which worshippers at the ancient Temple stood in the past.

The dig may be met with harsh reactions from Muslim and Arab leaders in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, many of whom have accused Israel of attempting to damage the Al-Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Jerusalem-area Muslims recently rioted for several days after it was rumored that “Jewish settlers” had planned to pray on the Temple Mount

Comments

[Joseph]

Jerusalem was in the past and is now the legal capital of Israel. Any one can say what may but way before there was any other nation there, Israel already was. That will never change.

[Dr Wael]

Let us be seriuos.
Israel wants Jerusalem as it`s capital and all these actions like digging and searching a non existed ruins are aimed to demolish Al aqsa Mosque