View Live Webcams Covering the Israeli Excavations Near Masjid Al-Aqsa

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 JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Thursday began operating live Internet cameras at a construction project next to a hotly disputed Jerusalem holy site (the third holiest site in Islam–the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its compound), and agreed to a Turkish request to inspect the work, responding to intense criticism from the Muslim world.

Please click here to view the live webcams covering the Israeli excavations near the Masjid Al-Aqsa site.

 Note from Rafik Beekun:  It is sad to note how the highly debatable decision to excavate next to one of the most holiest site in Islam is being justified ex-post by the Israeli Antiquities Authority.   Sometimes, leaders or organizations create a paper trail to rationalize a decision that has already been made.
1. Please click here to read the justifications being advanced by Yuval Baruch, the Jerusalem Region Archaelogist from the Israel Antiquities Authority to justify the excavations.
2. Please click here to see the resulting reaction from local and national Muslim authorities in this article

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