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Israeli far-right minister leads incursion of Al-Aqsa compound

Israeli police blockade the entrance to Al-Aqsa compound, also known to Jews as Temple Mount, following a visit to the site by Israel's hard-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has led a group of more than one thousand ultranationalist settlers to the Al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem, his third such entrance to the site this year.

The provocative minister’s entrance to the holy site on Thursday took place as Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a fast day mourning the destruction of two ancient Jewish temples.

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