The Unseen Politics Beneath the Temple Mount Benjamin Netanyahu's recent tour of tunnels beneath Al Aqsa Mosque compound has sparked controversy and outrage.
But what lies beneath this latest flashpoint is a decades long struggle for control over one of the world's most contested sites.
The tunnels explored by Netanyahu are part of an extensive network that has been dug beneath the Temple Mount – also known as Haram al Sharif in Arabic – since the 1990s.