Some 1,200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank region of Masafer Yatta face the risk of forced removal to make way for an army firing zone after a decades-long legal battle that ended last month in Israel's highest court.

Israeli police clashed with Palestinian mourners packed around the coffin of killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh at the start of her funeral procession in Jerusalem on Friday.

A barrage of rockets from Gaza hit Israel during the night, the army says, hours after five Palestinians were killed during clashes on the Israeli border, in a flareup that could jeopardise truce efforts.

Palestinians torched a site revered by Jews in the West Bank overnight, Israeli and Palestinian sources said on Friday.

Attacks have continued in parts of Jerusalem only hours after Israeli forces launched a major security operation in Arab areas of the city.

Two Israelis have been killed and three injured in separate attacks in Jerusalem by Palestinians who were then shot dead by police.