CAIRO, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit strongly condemned on Thursday 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