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Wakf workers evicted from Temple Mount By Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post - Sept. 6, 2001) Islamic Wakf officials who were doing unsupervised construction work on the southern wall of the Temple Mount earlier this week were evicted by the police, security officials and archaeologists said yesterday. The unprecedented work on an exterior wall of the Temple Mount that the Islamic trust started to carry out on Monday, came in the wake of reports that sections of the Southern wall were in danger of collapse likely due to past Wakf work on the Solomon's Stables located just above. A guard from the nearby archaeological park alerted police, who ordered the construction immediately stopped. Jerusalem police spokesman, Shmuel Ben-Ruby, confirmed yesterday that police did not allow the Wakf officials to carry out the work "since they did not coordinate their moves with police." Earlier today the Iranian state news agency alleged that Israel is digging tunnels under the Temple Mount in a bid to destroy the Aksa Mosque.
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