ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Clashes erupted on Friday (February 28) in occupied East Jerusalem, after an Israeli right-wing member of parliament tried to introduce a bill that calls for the application of Israeli sovereignty over the al-Aqsa mosque compound, and to allow Jews to pray there.<br/> <br />Sitting above the Western Wall plaza, it is home to the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site.<br/> <br />Jews refer to it as the Temple Mount, and many believe it is the site of the first and second Jewish temples.<br/> <br />Israeli security forces were deployed in and around the city's ancient walls and prevented many Palestinians from entering the al-Aqsa mosque to take part in Friday prayers. Police also closed most major roads leading to the Old City.<br/> <br />Hundreds of Palestinian men prayed in the street, amid beefed up security.<br/> <br />The al-Aqsa compound, which lies in East Jerusalem, territory Israeli occupied in the 1967 war, is often a flashpoint of viol
