A Palestinian official said on Wednesday that Israel will be at fault for any religious clashes that occur over al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem if Israelis continue to provoke Palestinian sentiments.

"Such violations are dangerous. This will lead to shocking religious confrontations between Palestinians and Israelis," Mahmoud al-Habbash, the minister of religious affairs, told Xinhua, referring to a recent visit to the mosque by an Israeli official.

Earlier on Wednesday, right-wing Israeli member of the Knesset Moshe Feiglin entered the al-Aqsa compound, the third holiest site in Islam, a move that provoked many in the Palestinian community.

Feiglin's visit to the Islamic shrine came two days after the Israeli parliament canceled a planned session that he called for to discuss imposing Israel's sovereignty over the mosque.

Currently, Jordan oversees al-Aqsa and all other Muslim and Christian religious sites in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.

Frequent visits by Israelis to the site anger Palestinian Muslims and often lead to violent clashes with Israeli soldiers guarding the compound.

Muslims claim that visits by Israeli Jews insult the Islamic creed.

However, the site is holy in Judaism as well, and many Israeli Jews refer to the mosque as the "Temple Mount," which, according to them, embraced two Jewish temples in ancient times.

Controversies over the al-Aqsa mosque have sparked violent clashes in the past. A visit to the compound by Israeli leader Ariel Sharon in 2000 was widely seen as a trigger for the second Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, which engulfed Israel and the Palestinian territories in bloody and deadly violence for years.

Jerusalem and its religious status are among the most disputed issues in the current peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis.