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SPECIAL REPORT

SPECIAL REPORT 1. THE RIGHTS AND CLAIMS OF MOSLEMS AND JEWS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WAILING WALL AT JERUSALEM* Report of the Commission appointed by His Majesty's Government in the United King- dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with the approval of the Council of the League of Natims, to determine the rights and claims of Moslems and Jews in connection with the West- ern or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem - December 1930. I. Introduction II. Description of The Wailing Wall and its Environs With respect to the position of the Western or Wailing Wall (in Arabic, Al Buraq; in Hebrew, Kothel Maaravi) and the lie of the surrounding area, see the official plan drawn by the Palestine Government, annexed hereto (Appendix V).1 I The Wailing Wall forms an integral part of the western exterior shell of the Haram-esh- Sehrif which itself is the site of the ancient Jewish temples, at the present day supplanted by Moslem Mosques. The Haram-esh-Sherif in actual fact is a vast rectangular platform, several hundred metres in length and width. One of the said Mosques, the Mosque of Aqsa, is contig- uous to the southern exterior wall of the Haram and extends up to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Online Brill

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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2211-6141
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10.1163/221161497X00124
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1. THE RIGHTS AND CLAIMS OF MOSLEMS AND JEWS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WAILING WALL AT JERUSALEM* Report of the Commission appointed by His Majesty's Government in the United King- dom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with the approval of the Council of the League of Natims, to determine the rights and claims of Moslems and Jews in connection with the West- ern or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem - December 1930. I. Introduction II. Description of The Wailing Wall and its Environs With respect to the position of the Western or Wailing Wall (in Arabic, Al Buraq; in Hebrew, Kothel Maaravi) and the lie of the surrounding area, see the official plan drawn by the Palestine Government, annexed hereto (Appendix V).1 I The Wailing Wall forms an integral part of the western exterior shell of the Haram-esh- Sehrif which itself is the site of the ancient Jewish temples, at the present day supplanted by Moslem Mosques. The Haram-esh-Sherif in actual fact is a vast rectangular platform, several hundred metres in length and width. One of the said Mosques, the Mosque of Aqsa, is contig- uous to the southern exterior wall of the Haram and extends up to

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The Palestine Yearbook of International Law OnlineBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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