The Waqf Islamic trust at the Temple Mount says Israeli forces left all documents and historically significant materials intact at the mosque and Islamic shrine on the Mount during raids and unrest last month.
Palestinian officials have suggested that Israeli security forces either confiscated or damaged Muslim documents contained in the Waqf’s archive at the site amid tensions after a July 14 terror attack left two Israeli police officers dead.
In a statement, the Waqf does accuse Israeli forces of breaking locks, conducting “unjustified searches,” and confiscating a recording device, Channel 2 reports.
But nothing was taken from the archive or the collections of the Islamic Museum at the site, it says.
Israeli police officers searched the compound for weapons following the attack, in which the three Arab Israeli shooters used firearms that had been previously stashed inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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