JERUSALEM, Feb. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli police launched an attack against the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday after Palestinian prayers threw stones at them, Israel Public Radio reported.

    Police used stun grenades to subdue the demonstrators who began throwing stones after Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City.

    "Hundreds of Muslims threw rocks and rioted," police spokesman Gil Kleiman said. "Police entered the Temple Mount."

    An ambulance driver said four Palestinian demonstrators had beeninjured but none seriously, and police said three officers were lightly hurt.

    Police said stones had crashed onto the section of the Western Wall plaza where women pray, but no worshippers were injured.

    The compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, is one of the most sensitive sites in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    The clashes at the shrine came on the heels of a week of Palestinian protests in the West Bank against the construction of the Israeli separation wall. Enditem