Clashes as Israeli occupation forces storm al-Aqsa Mosque

Israeli police using stun grenades attacked Palestinians on Sunday at al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

No serious injuries were reported at the site, the third holiest in Islam, which is in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem.

A police spokeswoman said Palestinians had prepared makeshift barricades and used rocks, metal bars and flares to 'attack' police who came to dismantle them.

Violence at the site has flared in the past year as Palestinians have respnded to provocative attempts at storming the site by extremist Jews. 

Police used stun grenades to push protesters back into the mosque and stepped inside its entrance way to close its main doors, which the spokeswoman said had been jammed open. 

Israeli police did not venture further into the Mosque, and violence usually subsides quickly, as it did on Sunday, after Palestinian demonstrators take refuge inside. 

Jewish ultranationalists have been pushing the extremist Israeli government to allow Jewish prayer on the compound outside al-Aqsa.  

On Friday, there was a demonstration at the main weekly prayers on Friday when outraged Muslims protested over insulting public comments about the Prophet Mohammed made by a Jewish woman.  

Jews extremists often attempt to storm the site, even though Jews are allowed to enter the compound, but are forbidden from praying there for fear of triggering tensions with Muslim worshippers.  

Israel routinely imposes age restrictions on Muslim worshippers. 

After Israeli police entered the Mosque in November, Jordan one of the very few Arab states with diplomatic relations with Israel, recalled its ambassador.

Israel seized east Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community.