(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Syrian State television said that eleven protesters were martyred “including a child, and nine others have been wounded by Israeli gunfire near the barbed wire on the occupied Golan”. The state-run TV added that some of the injured were in critical condition.
Palestinian and Syrian protesters head to the border with occupied territories in Golan Heights on Naksa Day (The Day of Defeat) to mark the 44th anniversary of the beginning of Israel's 1967 Six-Day War against Arabs.
The Syrian TV showed footage of Israeli soldiers on top of a tank opening fire on the protesters.
Live footages broadcast on Syrian TV and Al-Jazeera also showed heavy gunfire along the Golan Heights border and protesters carrying wounded people away.
In central West Bank several protesters were injured as Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas at demonstrators in the Qalandiya village near the city of Ramallah.
ISRAEL ON HIGH ALERT
Israeli media outlets reported on Sunday that occupation forces were on high alert for fear of any attempt by protesters to cross the border.
Israeli Daily, Haaretz, said that Northern Command of occupation forces was “on high alert this morning ahead of a possible attempt by thousands of Palestinian refugees from the Damascus area to storm the border of the Golan Heights as a way of marking Naksa Day”.
It added that the Central Command and the Southern Command also declared high alert in case protesters in West Bank and Gaza Strip respectively took to streets marking the event.
However, the daily said that the “northern border seems the most likely area for clashes”.
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