(Reuters) - "Violence erupted on Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, leaving at least eight dead and dozens wounded, as Palestinians marked what they term "the catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948. Israeli troops shot at protesters in three separate locations ...Israeli and Syrian media reports said Israeli gunfire killed four people after dozens of Palestinian refugees infiltrated the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria,...Witnesses on the nearby Lebanese frontier said four Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces fired at rock-throwing protesters... The Lebanese army had also earlier fired in the air in an attempt to hold back the crowds. On Israel's tense southern border with the Gaza Strip, Israeli gunfire wounded 60 Palestinians as demonstrators approached Israel's fence with the Hamas Islamist-run enclave, medical workers said. In Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial hub, a truck driven by an Arab Israeli slammed into vehicles and pedestrians, killing one man and injuring 17 people..."
Sunday, May 15, 2011
'Nakba' on three fronts ...
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The Guardian website is running a live blog.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2011/may/15/syria-libya-middle-east-unrest-live
Al Jaazera has got a slideshow of photos from the protests.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/05/2011515133642937215.html
However still waiting on Al Jaazera to show any photos from Bahrain :(
On an ironic note Netanyahu blamed Syria for the protests 2 weeks after Assad blamed the US and Israel for Syria's protests.
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