30 July, 2017
Israel put up the metal detectors after Arab gunmen killed two policemen from inside the shrine, holy to Muslims and Jews, earlier this month.
An Israeli government official said he was at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday evening.
One person set off a firework, prompting Israeli police to raid and disperse them using sound grenades.
The Israeli forces started to remove the metal detectors from gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the early hours of Tuesday in Jerusalem but keep the security cameras, the director of the mosque said.
Israel is working to calm the situation in Jerusalem following a flare-up of violence, but it will do whatever is necessary to maintain security at a holy site, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations says.
Clashes have broken out during protests over the measures, leaving five Palestinians dead.
Three Israelis were also killed last Friday when a Palestinian broke into a home in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and stabbed them.
A statement from Mr Netanyahu's office said the security cabinet accepted "the recommendation of all the security bodies to change the inspection with metal detectors to a security inspection based on advanced technologies and other means".
The site is under Jordanian custodianship but is controlled by Israel.
