The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the move as an 'unprecedented provocation'
, Israel's new hard-right security minister, was filmed on Tuesday entering the al-Aqsa compound with a security detail in a move described by the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs as an 'unprecedented provocation'.
The visit comes days after he was appointed to the post, which gives him oversight of national police. The controversial minister has long lobbied for an overhaul of how the religious sites are managed to allow for Jewish prayer on the compound, which is opposed by the mainstream rabbinical tradition
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