Yesterday, Tuesday, Jerusalem expert Abdullah Marouf revealed Israeli attempts to build a synagogue below the southern area of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. Marouf said, in a post on Facebook, “It has become clear to me that there is severe and dangerous confusion - and I think it is intentional - among media professionals, politicians, and even some activists in knowing what we are talking about in the southwestern region of Al-Aqsa Mosque!”

He added, “We are not talking about tunnels under the walls of Al-Aqsa Mosque, nor about excavations in those areas, as many imagine. Rather, the matter is more dangerous than that!” Marouf explained, “The issue revolves around a ‘Basement’ settlement located in the interior spaces of Al-Aqsa Mosque itself, and it is completely similar to the Marwani prayer hall. It is located inside Al-Aqsa Mosque between Al-Qibli Mosque and the Islamic Museum on the southwestern side of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

He explained that the talk is about a settlement that could be a prayer hall that looks exactly like the Marwani prayer hall. The occupation authorities are working to prepare and equip it, it seems, to make it suitable for prayer. The occupation authorities surprise us by opening a loophole in the southwestern wall of Al-Aqsa that enters this settlement after it has completed preparing it for prayer. This will be transformed into The settlement suddenly turned into a synagogue inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, opposite and completely adjacent to the Marwani Mosque from the opposite side.

“Marouf” mentioned that the reason for opening the Marwani Mosque for prayer in 1996 was the spread of news about what was called at that time the “Beilin-Abu Mazen” document, in which, according to the reports at that time, a solution to the issue of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was proposed by sharing it vertically within the formula of “what is above the ground for Muslims.” And what is underground is for the Jews), and the Marwani prayer hall was a candidate to be handed over to the settlers.”

He wondered, “Are we waiting to witness the handing over of this settlement today to the settlers to turn it into a synagogue instead of the Marwani prayer hall?!” With Arab approval and silence and even Islamic ignorance?!!”