Palestinian religious leaders are attacking a plan to rebuild the Tiferet Israel Synagogue, calling it a "scheme" to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Tiferet Israel Synagogue stood in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City until 1948, when it was destroyed by the Jordanian army.
A preacher at the al-Aqsa Mosque, Muhammad Hussein, claims that the location belongs to Islam and any attempt to build a synagogue is the start of a plan to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque and destroy the memory of Arab Muslims in Jerusalem.