The Israeli army on Sunday responded by heavy fire to unarmed pro-Palestinian protesters at the cease-fire line between Syria and Israel, killing 20 people and wounding 325 others, the state-run Syrian TV reported.


Pro-Palestinian protesters are seen at the cease-fire line between Israel and Syria during a demonstration to commemorate the anniversary of starting of the six-day 1967 Arab-Israeli war, on June 5, 2011. 
The TV said the 20 victims included a child and a woman, and 12 of the injured were in "grave condition."


A group of young Palestinian refugees tried Sunday to cross the barbed wire fences into the Israeli-controlled Majdal Shams, to mark the "Naksa Day", or "setback day", the anniversary of the six- day 1967 Arab-Israeli War, in which Israel seized control of the Golan Heights, the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and northern Sinai.


Xinhua reporters saw 200 to 300 protesters gathering at the " Shouting Hill" near Majdal Shams, among whom some 40 to 50 were approaching the security fences, waving a Syrian flag and shouting slogans.


The young men carried the Palestinian and Syrian flags and shouted slogans such as "the people want to liberate Palestine."

They also carried banners, one of which read that "our martyrs are torches on the road of return."


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