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Temple News Story 04-31
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Growing fears of Ramadan Temple Mount
disaster MAARIV International Police mull limiting access to Temple mount mosques, following warnings by experts that “Solomon’s Stables” could collapse. The Defense eststablishment is carefully considering a proposal to severely limit access to the Temple mount mosques during Ramadan, the Moslem holy month due to begin at the end of the week. Proponents of the plan call for limiting access to 50,000 worshippers, instead of the 250,000 that usually come to pray in the Temple Mount mosques on the first day's prayers of Ramadan This is a result of mounting fears that the structural integrity of Solomon's Stables has been compromised. Over the past several months the Waqf (Moslem religious council) has carried out major construction work without adequate supervision, due to its refusal to allow Israeli construction engineers access to the construction site. Recently several experts have warned that the result could be a catastrophic structural failure, causing the building to collapse, possibly burying thousands of worshippers. Opinions in the establishment are sharply divided, as fears of the repercussions of a major disaster are tempered by concerns of the possible domestic and international political fallout resulting from Israel limiting access to the Temple Mount mosques. Three weeks ago, Maariv revealed that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had instructed the defense establishment to prevent a disaster on the Temple Mount, in light of the estimate that the compound knows as “Solomon’s Stables” would collapse, burying tens of thousands of worshipers. After all diplomatic efforts to convince Jordanian authorities and the Waqf (Moslem religious council) to seal off the area during the Ramadan prayers, police have decided to prepare a massive emergency operation termed “Ma’ayan Shlomo” (Solomon’s Fountain). According to the plan, over 4,000 soldiers and police officers would be deployed at potential hotspots. Police will attempt to limit the number of worshipers from an estimated 250,000 to only 50,000. This, on condition that Jordan and the Waqf do not block the entrance to the compound themselves. Police is also mulling whether to completely isolate Jerusalem by blocking all entrances from the West Bank and by preventing a large number of Moslems who would head for Jerusalem from the Galilee and the Negev. In any case, Minster of Public Security Gideon Ezra has instructed the Home Front Command, the fire fighting services and MDA to prepare for a scenario of a collapse of “Solomon’s Stables”. Head of Israel Police, Chief Commissioner Moshe Karadi, has proposed to begin the implementation of the plan as early as this Thursday, if no indications on fixing the structural deficiencies or of blocking the entrance to the compound are received. Officials are currently waiting to hear if the first Friday of the Ramadan would be held this coming Friday, as the final date is determined according to the hour in which the moon rises in Saudi Arabia. It has been reported that Waqf officials, in spite of its official refusal to do so, have begun placing scaffoldings at “Solomon’s Stables”. The Waqf have also reportedly blocked the compound in the area of the three loose arches, which raise the most concern as to their stability. However, an official engineering approval that the above actions have indeed managed to prevent a collapse, has yet to be received. Justice Minister Yossef Lapid went so far as to propose that the engineering faults at the compound be documented on tape and spread worldwide ahead of time, “so we wouldn’t have to explain what had occurred there”. Source |
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