Closing the Gate
There is a common saying the Gate closed after Salahaddin liberation, and has circulated information about all closed Gates, However, there is no historical evidence to support this Saying.
Proof of inaccuracy
At the hadith of Ibn al-‘Umari about the Marwani chapel in 755 AH-1354 AD mentioned the opened Gates which was leading to the area of Silwan and was intended triple Gate in 746 AH – 1345 AD.
The Marwani chapel was reached until the year 900 AH – 1495 AD from outside the wall, from the triple or single Gate as indicated by Hanbali.
During excavations in the Umayyad region, the wall of Ayyubi revealed in front of the closed gates indicates that the Ayyubies protected the gates by building a wall in front of them, but not closing them as believed, It is more likely that the triple and single Gates Completely closed after the rebuilding of the wall at the time of Sultan Suleiman at the beginning of the Ottoman period.
After the Zionist occupation of Jerusalem in 1967 AD
Following the failure of Jewish excavations in the area of the Umayyad palaces south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to proving any right to the Jews, they claimed that the triple Gate (as well as the Double Gate) one of their claimed Temple and called them the “Gate of Khaldah”, claiming that they discovered the remains of a staircase from the second temple, leading to them, took it as an excuse to build a stone staircase along part of the barrier south of Al-Aqsa, and specifically in the area between the triple and Double Gates.
The Muslims were alerted to that the attempt aimed at capturing the Marwani chapel and the old Aqsa Mosque and turning them into Synagogue to find a place for the Jews within Al-Aqsa Mosque, but thanks to God that the Muslims were able to reduce that danger through the work of restoration of the worshipers.
At 2001
Because of excavations, part of the southern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque buckled between the triple and the single Gates, with a length of about thirty meters, and this was the most intense eruption over the rebuilding Aqsa Mosque since the occupation.