News on the Temple Mount and the Waqf

TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Arutz Sheva reports that the Waqf is engaged in unauthorized digging again: Exposed: Waqf Illegally Drilling on Temple Mount. Temple Mount activist catches Waqf officials vandalizing Judaism's holiest site. (Tova Dvorin).

Muslim worshippers don't just have more freedom to pray on the Temple Mount, a recent investigation reveals: they apparently also have permission to drill.

An investigation Monday by Yehuda Glick, Director of the Haliba organization for Jewish freedom on the Temple Mount, caught Waqf officials red-handed in the act of drilling through the ancient stones.

Vandalizing the Mount - Judaism's holiest site and a national landmark for people of all religions - violates the law; when caught in the act on film, the perpetrators quickly tried to conceal their actions.

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Regular readers will be aware that there is a long history of this sort of problem. Background here and links.

Also, the Jewish Voice has an article on media responses to the document they have leaked as that classified Comptroller's Report: Media Reacts to JV Exclusive on Secret Temple Mount Report. The story does not seem to have been picked up so far by major international news outlets.

Background here and links.