Israeli gunfire kills three on Golan

Palestinian activists are demonstrating on the 44th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War Israeli army gunfire killed three people and wounded nine others as youths tried to climb a barbed wire fence on the annexed Golan Heights on Sunday, Syrian state television said. "Three martyrs have fallen, including a child, and nine others have been wounded by Israeli gunfire near the barbed wire on the occupied Golan," it said.
In a protest by Syrian and Palestinian youth to mark the anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel seized the Golan, the television showed footage of youth trying to scale the fence as soldiers on top of a tank opened fire.
An AFP photographer at Majdal Shams on the Israeli side saw four of the protesters being evacuated.
The demonstrators chanted slogans and hurled rocks as they scaled the fence at several locations to try to enter the Israeli-annexed Golan, the television reported.
On May 15, Israeli gunfire killed 12 people and wounded hundreds as Palestinians marched on Israel's borders with Lebanon, Syria and Gaza in a mass show of mourning over the creation of the Jewish state.
Four of the demonstrators were killed near Majdal Shams.