Israel kills 3 in Syrian march at Golan

Israeli forces have killed three people and injured nine more when hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched from Syria towards Golan Heights at the country’s border with Israel, a Syrian TV report says.

“Three martyrs have fallen, including a child, and nine others have been wounded by Israeli gunfire near the barbed wire on the occupied Golan,” the Syrian state television said on Sunday, AFP reported.

The protesters flocked to Golan border on Naksa Day to mark the 44th anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War against Arabs.

Thousands of Israeli security forces were also on high alert on ‘Naksa Day’, fearing possible unrest.

Live footage broadcast on Syrian TV and Al-Jazeera also showed heavy gunfire along the Golan Heights border and protesters carrying wounded people away.