Israeli troops killed four people and wounded 209 when they fired live rounds and tear gas on thousands of protesters along the armistice line with Syria, the official SANA news agency said on Monday. Sunday’s casualties came in the Ain al-Tineh district of the city of Quneitra, and in Majdal Shams, a town in the Israeli-annexed part of the Golan Heights. All four of the dead were men, while 53 of the 209 injured sustained bullet wounds, some of them severe, SANA reported, quoting Quneitra hospital chief Ali Kanaan. On Sunday, medics had said that two people had been killed and dozens wounded in the disturbances in the Golan. Another 10 people died when Israeli troops fired on thousands of people demonstrating on the Lebanese border, medics said. The protesters were marking the anniversary of Israel’s creation, which they commemorate as the “nakba” or “catastrophe.”
