JERUSALEM: Tension soared in east Jerusalem Sunday as stone-throwing Palestinians and police clashed ahead of a funeral for a Palestinian man who was shot dead by police as he fled on foot from what Israeli authorities branded a “terror attack.”

Palestinian political groups called for a march from the restive east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound starting at 17:00 p.m. (1500 GMT).

Tensions rose ahead of Sunday night’s funeral for Abdelrahman Shaludi.

Israeli authorities only allowed 20 mourners to attend and they have had to submit their names to police in advance.

Police said at least five Palestinians were arrested late Saturday as nightly clashes continued across Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.

Tensions were further stoked after the army on Friday shot dead a West Bank teenager who Israeli authorities said had been about to hurl a petrol bomb at Israeli motorists near Ramallah.

Relatives of the dead 14-year-old, Orwa Hammad, said his funeral would also take place on Sunday, to allow his father time to travel from the United States where he is a resident citizen. Hammad was also a US national.

Washington has urged “all parties to help restore calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of the tragic recent incidents in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”

The latest clashes were especially intense in Silwan, an area near Jerusalem’s Old City from where Shaludi hailed.

Police dispersed gangs of stone-throwing protesters, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, adding that there was scattered unrest again on Sunday morning.

Violence also flared in the areas of Al-Tur, Sawaneh, Beit Hanina, Shuafat, Ras Al-Amoud and Chayah, according to Israeli police and Palestinian groups.

Undercover officers assisted by surveillance balloons across east Jerusalem brought the riots under control, an AFP correspondent said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Jerusalem’s security forces were further reinforced with an extra 1,000 police and border police, including special forces.

“We will not allow the reality of Jerusalem to become one of throwing stones and firebombs, and disturbances,” he said at the start of Sunday’s cabinet meeting.

Netanyahu blamed “extremist Islamic elements” for being behind the attempts to “incite Israel’s capital.”

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki also called for “a speedy and transparent investigation” into Hammad’s death.

In clashes on Saturday, Silwan residents hurled rocks at a sanitation vehicle sent to clean up debris from stone-throwing the previous night.