Editing Temple Mount (section)

=== British Mandatory period ===
{{Main|1929 Palestine riots}}
Between 1922 and 1924, the Dome of the Rock was restored by the Islamic Higher Council.<ref name=Hashemite/> The Zionist movement at the time was strongly opposed to any notion that the Temple itself might be rebuilt. Indeed, its armed wing, the [[Haganah]] militia, assassinated a Jewish man when his plan to blow up the Islamic sites on the Haram came to their attention in 1931.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wallach |first=Yair |date=2021-05-13 |title=The violence that began at Jerusalem's ancient holy sites is driven by a distinctly modern zeal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/13/violence-jerusalem-holy-sites-israeli-right-temple-mount |access-date=2024-03-10 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Renovations were also conducted at the [[Al-Aqsa Mosque]] from 1938–1942, following an earthquake in the summer of 1937.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hamilton |first=R. W. |author-link=Robert Hamilton (archaeologist) |title=The structural history of the Aqsa Mosque: a record of archaeological gleanings from the repairs of 1938–1942 |date=1949 |publisher=Oxford University Press (for the Government of Palestine by Geoffrey Cumberlege) |location=London |url=http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?id=6681&folder_id=83&loc_id=15330 |oclc=913480179 |page=Introductory note |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023045404/http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?id=6681&folder_id=83&loc_id=15330 |archive-date=2020-10-23 |url-status=live}}</ref>