(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) An Israeli policeman was slightly injured on Tuesday in clashes with stone-throwing Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem.
The policeman was struck by a stone during clashes that erupted in the Jabal Zaytoun neighborhood, Israel's Channel 7 reported.
In a related development, an Israeli court barred four Palestinians from entering East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for a two-week period.
The court also barred a fifth Palestinian from entering the holy site for 90 days for allegedly "disturbing the peace" near the mosque, according to the Jerusalem Center for Media Affairs, a Palestinian NGO.
East Jerusalem has recently witnessed a number of clashes between Palestinian residents and Israelis who have come to the city over the past two days to commemorate the Jewish Shavuot holiday.
For Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world's third holiest site. Jews, for their part, refer to the area as the "Temple Mount," claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the holy city in 1980, claiming it € along with West Jerusalem € as the unified capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state in a move never recognized by the international community.
In September 2000, a visit to Al-Aqsa by controversial Israeli politician Ariel Sharon sparked what later became known as the "Second Intifada," a popular uprising against Israel's decades-long occupation in which thousands of Palestinians were killed.
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