Silwan committee warns of collapse of school due to Israeli digging

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The committee for the defense of Silwan has warned of the collapse of an old school in the town, south of the Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

Head of the committee Fakhri Diyab blamed the Israeli occupation authority’s incessant excavations to the fact that the school might cave in at any time.

He said in a statement on Wednesday that the school is in real danger as a result of the IOA digging underneath it and in its vicinity.

Diyab said that the school, which was built in 1917, was controlled by the IOA after the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967 that gave part of it to a settlement society that turned into a warehouse for its digging equipment.

He feared that the IOA would close the school, which is for children, at the pretext of cracks in its walls and deliver it to the society.

The committee head noted that the IOA’s Judaization projects, such as parks, had reached near to the school’s walls.

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