City of David

Greece's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued a statement expressing its "deep concern" over recent developments in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem after Israeli forces started bulldozing a 5,000 square meter plot of land owned by the Greek Orthodox Church.

Israeli archaeologists claim they have found the remnants of an ancient Greek citadel, which was a center of power in Jerusalem. Its exact location had been unknown up to nowIsrael's antiquities body claimed Nov. 3 to have solved "one of Jerusalem's greatest archaeological mysteries" by unearthing an ancient Greek citadel, the Acra, buried under a car park.