I thought it was the Arabs who were doing excavation damage to the site? Anyway, this article is so blatantly biased it's ridiculous.
It absolutely is the arabs.
islam.. What's black is white..
They had been digging under the Temple mount to see if the arc of the Covenant was there. The Islamofascist raised a stink and they stopped. That's the last I hear. supposedly that was causing structural problem.