Jordanian MPs have called for a 1994 peace treaty with Israel to be scrapped after the Jewish state's parliament debated Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound,  media reported Wednesday.

The government-owned Al-Rai newspaper said 47 out of 150 members of the lower house signed a motion late Tuesday that the treaty be annulled.

"The motion came in response to Israel's actions in Jerusalem and to the Knesset debate of a law that seeks to impose Israel's sovereignty over Al-Aqsa," Al-Rai quoted MPs as saying in the motion.

Under the peace treaty, Jordan will act as the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.

"Israel's actions clearly violate the peace treaty ... it is aggression against Jordanian custodianship," the motion said.

Jordanian lower house deputy Khalil Attieh told AFP that 86 out of 150 members of parliament had also voted Wednesday to seek the expulsion of Israeli envoy Daniel Nevo.

Jordan's opposition Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, urged the government on Tuesday to freeze the peace deal.

"The custodianship is a Jordanian national interest and a sacred religious duty," said the IAF, the main opposition party.

On Tuesday evening, the Knesset held the first part of a debate called by right-wingers demanding that Israel end its practice of forbidding Jewish prayer at the compound.

In a motion which was not put to a vote, MP Moshe Feiglin, who is a hard-line member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, said Israel's fear of igniting Muslim rage amounted to discrimination against Jews.

Israeli police on Tuesday entered the compound to disperse stone-throwing Palestinian protesters, with an Israeli police spokesman speaking of "high tension."

AFP