Arab League slams Israeli minister’s storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit strongly condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s storming of East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, accompanied by a group of hardline settlers, as “a blatant provocation.”

“The incursion is a blatant provocation aimed at inflaming emotions



and escalating the situation,” Aboul-Gheit was quoted in a statement by the pan-Arab, Cairo-based organisation as saying.

Ben-Gvir’s entry into the holy site under the protection of the Israeli “occupying police” reveals the nature of the Israeli government’s hostility to peaceful coexistence, according to the AL chief..