Violence erupts outside Jerusalem mosque

Israeli police have raided a compound outside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque after Palestinians angered by Israel's threats to "remove…

Israeli police have raided a compound outside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque after Palestinians angered by Israel's threats to "remove" Yasser Arafat hurled rocks at worshippers at Judaism's Western Wall.

There were no immediate reports of injuries at the site, which Muslims call al-Haram al-Sharif and Jews revere as Temple Mount.

"After Palestinian youngsters on the Temple Mount threw rocks, a police contingent burst on to the compound," a police spokesman said after the end of Muslim Friday prayers at the site.