Four protesters dead in Israeli border gunfire: Syrian TV

Israeli troops opened fire across the Syrian frontier on Sunday to disperse hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed the border of the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Syrian television reported four people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli gunfire.
The unrest marked the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war.


The Israeli military accused Syria of instigating the disturbances to deflect attention from its bloody crackdown on a popular uprising at

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