Arab League foreign ministers will meet in Cairo early next month to discuss the Israeli police assaults on the worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Monday.

Arab League foreign ministers will meet in Cairo early next month to discuss the Israeli police assaults on the worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Monday.

Sunday's incident saw Israeli police enter the mosque as they clashed with Palestinians angered by Zionists' access to the compound.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told reporters that foreign ministers from 15 Arab states will meet on August 5 to discuss what he called the "dangerous development" in Jerusalem.

They will discuss "Israeli escalations at Al-Aqsa mosque, continuing settlements, extra-judicial arrests and assassinations and forced displacements" of Palestinians, he said after meeting the league's chief Nabil Al-Arabi at its Cairo headquarters.

Erakat said the meeting had been called by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.