Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back Tuesday at foreign attacks of plans for more than 1,000 new Jewish homes in east Jerusalem, saying the criticism was "detached from reality".

"I've heard the claim that our construction in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem distances peace," he said in remarks released by his office.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visited the al-Aqsa mosque compound Tuesday, his office said, prompting criticism from the site's Muslim authorities following weeks of tension at the flashpoint shrine.

The early morning visit, which saw Barkat touring the compound with a group of police, followed weeks of intermittent clashes triggered by reports Israel was mulling a change in the status quo to allow Jewish prayer at the sprawling site inside the Old City.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin flies to Poland on Monday for the inauguration of a Warsaw Jewish museum, meetings with his Polish counterpart and other senior officials, his office said.

"Later on Monday, President Rivlin will depart for Poland, on his first official visit abroad as president, at the invitation of the president of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski," it said.

Israel pledged Monday to build more than 1,000 new settler homes in Arab east Jerusalem, in a move the Palestinians warned was likely to trigger an "explosion" of violence.

The announcement by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered the Palestinians who said it would inflame tensions in the eastern sector of the city which has been plagued by almost daily clashes for the past four months.

Israeli-Palestinian talks on a lasting Gaza truce are to resume after mid-November, instead of Monday as initially planned, the chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad told AFP Sunday.

The announcement came after other Palestinian officials said the talks had been postponed due to Egypt's closure of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip.

Police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians in east Jerusalem as tensions mounted ahead of a funeral Sunday for a Palestinian who ploughed his car into a crowd of Israelis, killing a baby.

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

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Saturday that a suicide bombing, by a suspected jihadist, which killed 30 soldiers in the Sinai peninsula was carried out with "external support".

Egypt imposed a state of emergency across parts of Sinai as the military pounded suspected jihadists after Friday's suicide car bombing.

Israeli police clashed with Palestinians in east Jerusalem on Saturday and braced for more ahead of the funeral of a Palestinian driver who drove into a crowd, killing an Israeli baby.

With tensions further stoked after the army shot dead a West Bank teenager on Friday there were also reports of stoning of Israeli vehicles on roads around Ramallah.

Twenty years after Israel signed a historic peace treaty with Jordan, the pact -- deeply unpopular among Jordanians -- is a strategic partnership both sides are determined to protect, experts say.

In the two decades since the October 26, 1994 accord, the frosty relationship has survived numerous tests, mostly from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager Friday in a clash with stone-throwing protesters near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian medical officials and security sources told AFP.

They named the dead youth as Orwa Hammad, 17, and said he was shot in the village of Silwad.