6 killed, 9 injured by Israeli forces firing

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Demonstrators waved Palestinian flag and hurled unidentified objects towards the border with Israel.

05 June,2011 06:46 pm

Israeli forces opened fire as pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Syria got too close to the Israeli border fence on the Golan Heights in a protest marking the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war.Near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, located on the border between the Golan Heights and Syria and overlooking a hill top called the shouting hill, showed protesters gathering in front of a barbed wire, just meters away from the Israeli border fence. Demonstrators gathered in an anti-tank ditch facing the Israeli frontier waving Palestinian flags, shouted slogans and throwing stones.Israeli soldiers fired towards protesters, who were seen carrying wounded towards the shouting hill.Israeli soldiers shouted warnings in Arabic through a megaphone for the demonstrators to stay away from the barbed wire fence, which had been breached in a similar protest last month marking the anniversary of Israels founding in 1948.