Al-Quds’s Islamic Endowments Bureau has stated that Zionist digs under a historical mosque that dates back to the Omari conquest of the city in year 15 H.Q, have caused structural cracks in the mosque.
Al-Quds’s mosque inspector, Sheikh Mazen Ahram, said that cracks on the small Omari mosque’s entrance in the Al-Seryan neighborhood, and on its main door, are due to Zionist digs beneath it.
He also said in a statement that “a gradual depression has been noticed in the small Omari mosque’s floor, and this depression is increasing, which threatens to collapse the mosque,” adding that the mosque is in grave danger, “especially since we know nothing of these digs and their scope.”
He also stated that the digs below the mosque lead to a vast network of tunnels, noting that these tunnels are often waterways or labyrinths and tunnels from the Roman-Byzantine era. “Jewish forgery is always ongoing, and this isn’t unexpected of an occupation that seeks to change the face of al-Quds.”
He also confirmed that many cracks have come about in a great many of the old city’s mosques in Jerusalem, because of the digs that encompass “Bab al-Silsila”, al-Quds’s Endowment Bureau, the High Islamic Council, the old town’s lower streets and allies, and many areas the occupation prevents Palestinians from entering into, not to mention the large and dangerous digs underneath the al-Aqsa mosque.
Sheikh Ahram also clarified that the Zionists are attempting to prove the existence of archeological sites in al-Quds so that they can attribute it to them by remove traces of other civilizations in occupied al-Quds, relics from the Phoenician, Canaanite, Byzantine, Roman, and Islamic civilizations, which form a mosaic of the city. He noted that the proper Jordanian authorities supervising endowments in al-Quds have been notified to pursue the matter and resolve it with the occupation.
He continued “The mosque was built in the Omari era. It cracked and collapsed because of an earthquake that struck the city in 1926; it was rebuilt in 1958, and restored in 1963.” He also said that many mosque are called “Omari”, after the Omari conquest of the city, however this mosque is one of the most important Omari mosques in the city.
The Zionist occupation’s municipality had increased its digs in the old city, and under al-Aqsa’s foundations, as part of its attempts to Judaize the holy city that is witnessing an unprecedented war of Judaization.
The occupation’s mayor Nir Barkat recently announced the allocation of $2 billion to change the holy city’s features this year, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of al-Quds’s occupation.
