There have been a number of incidents at what is an interface area in recent days.
The trouble started around the loyalist Lower Newtownards Road area close to the junction with Bryson Street, leading to the nationalist Short Strand district.
Fireworks were thrown at police and the PSNI said there were reports of stones being thrown at buildings close to St Matthews Catholic chapel.
The PSNI said the injured officers did not require immediate hospital treatment. Two police vehicles were also damaged in the trouble. The windscreen of one and the headlight of another were broken.
Police blocked the road and, with the help of community representatives, calm was later restored. One teenager was arrested and later released.
Sinn Féin's Niall Ó Donnghaile said there had been attacks on homes in the nationalist Strand Walk area and on Saint Matthews Chapel and that the items being thrown ranged from petrol bombs to heavy duty fireworks.
He said the situation must not be allowed to become worse. He called on unionist politicians to tell those people responsible for the attacks that they were unacceptable and must end.
