A large part of the church land behind al-Ein Mosque in Silwan district sustained considerable collapse after heavy rain pouring for the second day unveiled a network of Israeli tunnels beneath Palestinian homes and buildings in the area.
Spokesman for the Silwan land defense committee Fakhri Abu Diyab told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that “one of the benefits of rainfall is that it exposes the network of tunnels which were dug by settler groups under Silwan real estate homes and streets.”
According to Abu Diyab most of the houses in the area has become suspended in the air and threatened with collapse after soil and rocks were withdrawn from under their foundations.
He pointed to the presence of widespread fractures in the walls of many houses as a result of Israeli underground diggings and tunnels.
The official urged the concerned international organizations to intervene to protect the lives of the local residents affirming that the Israeli municipal authority refuses to make repairs to the homes suffering from cracks and also prevents the owners from renovating their homes.
