article_snippet.sent: But something is hidden there,' said Israeli archaeologist Zachi Dvira, who studies the site.
article_snippet.sent: Israel's housing minister Uri Ariel, of the nationalist Jewish Home party, waded in to the argument to urge an immediate halt to the work.
article_snippet.sent: Sheikh Azzam Tamimi, the head of the Waqf, said the work is long overdue and has defiantly proclaimed that he was forbidding any Israeli involvement. '
article_snippet.sent: The director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority at the time called The director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority an 'archaeological crime'.
article_snippet.sent: For years, Dvira and veteran Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkay have been leading a team of archaeologists and volunteers in combing through the dirt for historical finds.
article_snippet.sent: Israel's state comptroller wrote a scathing report in 2010 about the Muslim authorities who administer the site illicit work projects at the compound and Israel's failure at enforcing supervision there.
article_snippet.sent: Israeli officials kept a scathing report in 2010 about the Muslim authorities' illicit work projects at the compound and Israel's failure at enforcing supervision thereIsraeli .