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.
"We know that he is innocent and he would not do anything wrong which could bring his life or his family's life at risk," Khan, 33, said at her home on Tuesday. "The U.S. government should bring him back."