At least 14 people were killed on Sunday after Israeli forces fired at Palestinian demonstrators on its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday. The protestors were marking what they term “the catastrophe” of Israel’s founding in 1948. At least 10 protestors were killed at the Lebanese-Israeli border when Israeli troops fired to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest, Lebanese security sources said.
The sources said more than 100 people had been injured in the shooting incident in the border village of Maroun al-Ras. The Israeli forces killed two people who had been taking part in an anti-Israeli rally on the Syrian side of the occupied Golan Heights border, the official state news agency said. Israeli media reports said that Israeli gunfire killed four people after dozens of Palestinian refugees infiltrated the Israeli side of the frontier from Syria during a demonstration to mark the “Nakba”.
Israel called the incidents “cynical” provocations inspired by Iran to exploit Palestinian nationalist feeling fuelled by the popular revolts of the “Arab Spring” across the Middle East, and to draw attention from major internal unrest inside Syria, its ally.
