A photo shows Itamar Ben-Gvir strolling at the periphery of the holy compound, surrounded by a clutch of bodyguards and flanked by a fellow Orthodox Jew.
The Palestinian foreign ministry said it "strongly condemns the storming of al-Aqsa mosque by the extremist minister Ben-Gvir and views it as unprecedented provocation and a dangerous escalation of the conflict".
Once an advocate of ending the ban on Jewish prayer at the compound, he has, since taking office, spoken in a more non-committal way about a need to enforce "non-discrimination" there.
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