There have been frequent clashes at the disputed site
Israeli security forces have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators at a holy site in Jerusalem's Old City.
At least 15 Israeli policemen and seven Palestinians were reported injured.
Hundreds of Israeli police stormed the Aqsa mosque compound after Palestinians threw stones down at Jewish worshippers by the Western, or Wailing, Wall.
A large Palestinian crowd had gathered earlier to stop a messianic Jewish group from placing a symbolic cornerstone on the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif - a complex holy to Jews and Muslims.
In the event, Israeli security forces prevented the group from getting anywhere near the site.
Several women were injured after the stone-throwing began.
The BBC's Paul Wood says there were several loud explosions as police fired tear gas canisters to disperse the Palestinians.
Sensitive site
The complex was the original home of Solomon's temple, the most sacred site for Jews, and the stone was to be laid as a symbolic first step towards rebuilding the temple.
But the complex also houses the Dome of the Rock and Aqsa mosque, holy to Muslims.
It was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to the complex last September which triggered the Palestinian uprising or intifada.
The Jewish group - from the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful - held a brief ceremony in a parking lot outside the Old City. The 4.5 tonne stone was then removed from the area.
Israel radio said the stone was taken back by truck to the spot where it has been standing for several years in East Jerusalem.
Arab warning
Arab leaders had warned that the Jewish group's move would be a provocation.
Last week the Temple Mount Faithful petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court for permission to place the cornerstone in the Old City.
The Supreme Court blocked their request to place it on the actual site where Jews believe the Biblical Temple stood, but allowed them to put it in a parking lot near an entrance to the Old City.
Egypt had urged permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to intervene to stop the Jewish group's ceremony.
On Saturday evening, about 4,000 right-wing Jews marched around the walls of the Old City to begin commemorations of the destruction of the First and Second Temples.
Commemoration date
Sunday is the ninth day of the month of Av in the Hebrew calendar, when religious Jews commemorate the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BC and the Second Temple in 70 AD.
The Temple Mount Faithful say that "not immediately rebuilding the Temple" is "the biggest failure and sin of our time".
The Islamic authority that administers the site
has not allowed non-Muslims to go there since
the beginning of the Palestinian uprising.
-- Anonymous, July 29, 2001