Clashes erupted late on Sunday between Palestinian youths and Zionist settlers in East Jerusalem amid heavy Zionist military deployment.

Clashes erupted late on Sunday between Palestinian youths and Zionist settlers in East Jerusalem amid heavy Zionist military deployment, World Bulletin website reported.

Eyewitnesses said the clashes erupted following provocations by the settlers who insulted Palestinians.

The clashes came only one day after a Zionist Knesset member had called for storming Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in East Jerusalem on Monday on the occasion of Sukkot, one of the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals, which started on Wednesday and lasts for a week.

Deputy Knesset Speaker Moshe Feiglin invited Jews on Saturday to gather outside the mosque compound at 6:30am on Monday before storming it.

The Zionist entity occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the holy city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the self-proclaimed Jewish state – a move never recognized by the international community.