Aqsa foundation warns of great danger threatening Al-Bustan neighborhood

Al-Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage warned of the existence of a great danger threatening Al-Bustan neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, appealing to the Arab and Islamic world to urgently move to save the holy city and protect the Aqsa Mosque against the Zionist scheme.
In a statement received by the PIC, the foundation said that there is a state of unanimity among the Palestinians in the Silwan area in general and the Bustan neighborhood in particular that the threat of demolishing their houses and displacing them might occur at any time.
The statement underlined that the Zionist scheme in the neighborhood started when Israel occupied east of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque in 1967, where Israel, since then, had been escalating its excavations in the southern and eastern areas of the Mosque and intensive settlement activities east of Jerusalem, and exercising all forms of racial discrimination and religious persecution against the Palestinians in the neighborhood.
The statement added that at the beginning of the third millennium, the Zionist scheme reached its climax, where the IOA in Jerusalem ordered the demolition of 88 homes in the Bustan neighborhood at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The statement noted that the real objective of the demolition was the establishment of the garden of king David as part of the alleged temple. 
The statement explained that the residents of the neighborhoods consequently pitched a protest tent and continued their protests until the IOA announced a freeze on demolition of houses and asked the Bustan residents to submit a blueprint for the neighborhood, who without delay tendered the plan to the Jerusalem district planning and construction commission, but, the commission, in the current year, rejected the submitted plan.
The statement added that the representative of the IOA also met with the Palestinian families in the neighborhood and threatened them to evacuate their homes voluntarily or else. 
For his part sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, warned that Israel is working on ethnically cleansing the Silwan area and the old city in order to complete the settlement encirclement around the Aqsa Mosque as a prelude to demolishing it and building the alleged temple on its ruins.
The Palestinian preachers in the West Bank mosques also focused their speeches on the Zionist attack on the holy city and mosque and called for pooling the efforts to confront the Zionist scheme in the Silwan area.