Jordan on Sunday summoned Israel's ambassador in Amman to demand a halt to 'repeated violations' by the Jewish state at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, the foreign ministry said. The summons came after Israeli police and Palestinian protesters Sunday clashed near the mosque compound, a flashpoint site in Jerusalem sacred to Muslims and Jews that saw similar unrest a week ago. The altercation occurred after Israeli authorities closed the holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem and 150 to 200 people gathered to pray outside the Lion's Gate, which leads into the compound, police and witnesses said. 'The foreign ministry today summoned the Israeli ambassador who was handed a letter of protest to demand an immediate halt to Israel's repeated violations in occupied East Jerusalem and at Al-Aqsa mosque compound,' a foreign ministry statement said. 'The letter stressed that such actions are illegal and illegitimate and violate Israel's commitments as an occupying force and threaten the peace process.' Israeli police said they had closed access to the Al-Aqsa compound, known to Muslims as Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) and to Jews as the Temple Mount, after mosque loudspeakers in the Old City urged people to gather there. 'Such Israeli actions represent the main obstacle to launching serious peace talks with the Palestinians,' Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said at a meeting with ambassadors of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States. 'They threaten international peace and security. The Security Council should immediately pressure Israel to stop its illegal actions,' another statement quoted Judeh as saying. Judeh, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, handed letters of protest to the envoys, the statement added. The site of the mosque compound is the holiest in Judaism and third-holiest in Islam and has often been the flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence. The second Palestinian uprising, or intifada, erupted there in September 2000 after a visit by Ariel Sharon, a rightwing politician who went on to become Israeli prime minister the following year. 