Israel reported no casualties or injured, but Syrian television speaks of, at least a dozen dead and more than 225 demonstrators wounded. Hundreds of people gathered at the border in commemoration of the Naksa, the Arab defeat in the 1967 six-day war. Netanyahu instructed security forces to act with the necessary firmness to a massive influx of demonstrators. The israeli army opened fire on dozens of protesters in Syria who tried to enter territory controlled by Israel on the Golan Heights, a military spokesman confirmed. Despite the numerous verbal warnings and firing into the air, dozens of Syrians continued arriving at the border and the israeli army forces had no choice but to shoot at the feet of demonstrators to deter other actions, noted the spokesman. The army Office of information not reported by the time of the existence of fatalities or injuries, although the Syrian State television announced the death of 13 demonstrators and that other 225 were injured by Israeli gunfire. Celebration of the Naksa hundreds of people gathered this morning in the so-called hill of shouts, next to the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in commemoration of the Naksa, defeat Arab in the 1967 six-day war.
Numerous ctive of the israeli army are stationed in the border area, with an advance team of snipers who have prevented the protesters cross into no man’s land. Al Jazeera television images showed dozens of protesters with Palestinian and Syrian flags over the same fence and 200 metres to hundreds of people, they shout the Golan is Arab or Viva Bashar Al-Assad. Events during the israeli army Palestinian Nakba, which is in State of alert, has strengthened its ctive along its borders to avoid a repetition of the events of last May 15, when about 180 protesters entered its territory during the Palestinian commemoration of the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic, date in which recall the creation in 1948 of the State of Israel). Fifteen people were killed on that day, ten of them in the border with Lebanon, four in the Golan and another on the northern border of the Gaza Strip. Propalestinos groups had called similar acts for this Sunday, but the Palestinian nationalist movement Fatah in the Lebanon ended the call at the last minute out of respect for the wishes of the Beirut Government and replaced the marches to the border by demonstrations in Palestinian refugee camps. Also have been convened in the West Bank, which will depart from the Centre of the cities of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Tulkarem to March towards checkpoints Israeli military, and demonstrations in the Gaza Strip. At the military checkpoint of Kalandia, close to Ramallah, about 150 Palestinians have gathered even though there have been no clashes with Israeli soldiers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week have been given to the security forces clear instructions to act with restraint, but firmly enough before a massive arrival possible protesters. Source of the news: the israeli army opened fire against demonstrators in the Golan Heights, on the border with Syria