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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police late Tuesday released nine relatives of two Palestinian attackers who had been detained earlier in the day, a lawyer told Ma'an.

Israeli police raided the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood on Tuesday and detained 12 family members of Ghassan Abu Jamal and his cousin Uday after they entered a synagogue in Jerusalem and killed five Israelis with meat cleavers, knives and guns.

A lawyer for the Addameer prisoners' rights group said that police kept two brothers of Abu Jamal and the brother of Uday in prison custody.

Meanwhile, clashes broke out in the East Jerusalem neighborhood after police refused to return the bodies of the attackers to their families due to ongoing investigations.

Israeli forces fired tear gas at protesters and a tent set up for mourners.

Clashes also took place in the Sur Bahir, Wadi al-Joz, and al-Tur neighborhoods.

Israeli rightists gathered and chanted anti-Palestinian slogans in Sur Bahir while in al-Tur an Israeli opened fire in the air after youths threw stones at his car.