He went on to repeat his previous (apparently fabricated) claim the Wakf had begun repairs but the Israelis had forced them to stop 20% of the way through. In August, the Palestinian al-Ayyam paper quoted Husseini as saying that the wall was not endangered, as does this BBC article - titled "Wailing Wall collapsing" - which confuses the endangered Southern wall with the stable Western ("Wailing") wall.
Husseini now says:
The Israeli authorities bear the responsibility for any loss of lives resulting from a collapse of the wall,"
Here's an earlier blog entry including an aerial view of the site.
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