Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Monday visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, during "Jerusalem Day" celebrations marking Israel's capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
"I ascended to the Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day, and prayed for victory in the war, for the return of all our captives, and for the success of the newly appointed Shin Bet chief -- Major General David Zini," Ben Gvir said in a statement on Telegram, released alongside a video of him at the site with Al-Aqsa in the background. "Happy Jerusalem Day!" he added.
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