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Palestinian worshippers clashed with Israeli police at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Sunday as an Israeli holiday coincided with the final days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Muslim worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound were angered over Jewish visits to the site holy to both religions, with some even taking to the dome of the mosque to shout Muslim slogans as the clash took place.
According to police, protesters barricaded themselves in the mosque, from where they threw chairs and stones at forces who 'dispersed' them but a Muslim organisations claimed that police chained the mosque doors.
Video footage appears to show a large crowd of people inside the building throwing objects towards the door as smoke bombs are launched into the room.