Local residents said settlers tried to reach a spring, which religious Jews view as a biblical site, by crossing through a mosque courtyard.
police said Palestinians then took to the streets in violent demonstrations, throwing rocks and firebombs at police and vehicles, burning six cars.
Israel captured East Jerusalem along with the West Bank in a 1967 war and regards all of Jerusalem as its capital
Pales want East Jerusalem as the capital of the state they intend in their dreams to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
