"They do want to stop the problems, and they've been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time," he said. "We are having 'em watch that there's not going to be big crime or some of the problems that you have when you have areas like this that have been literally demolished."
Just a day earlier, Ben-Gvir led a group of Jewish worshippers in prayer on the Temple Mount, the flashpoint site in Jerusalem that also houses the Al Aqsa Mosque, and called for "total victory" in Gaza. Now he was sitting with his fellow ministers to discuss how to bring to an end two years of hostilities that had reduced much of Gaza to a charred wasteland-but had left Hamas still standing.
