Israeli digging triggers landslide in al-Quds

The ongoing Israeli excavations have led to a landslide in a main street in Silwan district, downtown occupied al-Quds, Al-Aqsa Waqf and Heritage Foundation announced. “The landslide, which is two meters long, one meter wide and one and a half meters deep, took place some 700 meters to the south of Al-Aqsa Mosque – the Muslims’ third holiest site,” said a statement issued by the foundation.
 
Silwan is a Palestinian village on the hills south of the Old City of Quds, occupied in 1967 by the Israeli occupation army. It is one of several neighborhoods in occupied East al-Quds where Isralei and settler organizations are forcing Palestinians from their homes.

Almost 90 houses in the area are currently threatened with demolition, potentially displacing 1,000 – 1,500 residents and no construction permits have been issued for Palestinians in the area since 1967.

Excavation works represent another threat to Palestinian residents; literally undermining their homes. Silwan has witnessed four landslides due to Israeli excavations in few months.
 
In an earlier statement the foundation cautioned that the network of tunnels, being dug by the Israeli occupation around and under Al-Aqsa Mosque under the pretext of archeological excavations, could topple the holy Mosque and the nearby homes.