OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM, February 6, 2007, (WAFA)- Israeli bulldozers destroyed, Tuesday, a part of al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem.

Head of Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, said that the Israeli bulldozers destroyed the bridge leading to Almaghariba Gate of al-Aqsa.

He added that the bulldozers would destroy two ancient rooms beneath Alburaq Wall (west of Alaqsa).

Sheikh Salah said that the Israeli destruction of parts of al-Aqsa is a part of the Israeli procedures of jeudaization of Jerusalem launched since the Israeli occupation of the city in 1967.

Sheikh Salah, who heads an association for protecting al-Aqsa, recalled that Israel demolished several places and have been digging tunnels under al-Aqsa since 1967.

In 1967 the Israeli Minister of Army, Mosheh Daian, flattened Almaghariba neighbourhood closed to al-Aqsa.

S.A.S. (12:20 P) (10:20 GMT)