Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin shekarun 1980, Ben Shoshan da Yehuda Etzion, duka membobin Gush Emunim Underground, sun shirya tsaiko don busa masallacin al-Aqsa da Dome of the Rock. Etzion ya yi imanin cewa fashewar masallatai biyu zai haifar da farkawa ta ruhaniya a Isra'ila, kuma zai magance duk matsalolin mutanen Yahudawa. Sun kuma yi fatan za a gina Haikali na Uku na Urushalima a wurin da masallacin yake. A ranar 15 ga Janairu, 1988, a lokacin Intifada ta farko
, Sojojin Isra'ila sun harba bindigogi na roba da hayaki mai sa hawaye a kan masu zanga-zangar a wajen masallacin, inda suka raunata masu bauta 40. A ranar 8 ga Oktoba, 1990, 'yan Falasdinawa 22 ne suka mutu kuma sama da 100 suka ji rauni a hannun' yan sandan kan iyaka na Isra'ila yayin zanga-zangar da aka kaddamar da sanarwar Dutsen Haikali Mai Aminci, wata kungiyar yahudawa masu addini, cewa za su aza ginshiƙin Haikali na Uku.