Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the installation of cameras at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound must be "coordinated" with the Jewish state.

The Islamic trust that administers the holy site protested earlier that it had been blocked by Israeli police when trying to install the cameras.

But the prime minister said in a statement that the agreed measure to curb Israeli-Palestinian tensions over Al-Aqsa was "intended to be coordinated".