Five people were arrested after Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday, police said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the violence erupted when police opened one of the walled compound's gates to non-Muslim visitors.
"Stones and a number of Molotov cocktails were thrown at police," he told AFP.
"Police responded by using stun grenades and entered the Temple Mount area," he added, using the Jewish term for the site where tradition says the biblical Jewish temples once stood.
An AFP journalist said members of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas were among the protesters at the compound.
"Five people suspected of being involved in the clashes were arrested and there will be other arrests," Rosenfeld said.