Israel's military spokesman says soldiers have opened fire at a large crowd of Lebanese protesters who approached the border with Israel.
Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai says soldiers fired at the crowd when the demonstrators reached the border and began vandalizing the fence. He says the army is "aware" of casualties on the other side.
The demonstration came as a large crowd of protesters also tried to cross into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from neighboring Syria. Channel 2 TV says four people were killed.
Mordechai says dozens of people have crossed, and troops are still working to stop the crowd from entering. He had no details on the number of casualties.
Mordechai called Sunday's unrest a provocation by Iran, an enemy of Israel that supports militant groups fighting Israel.
Hopefully the refrain from a more direct attempt at diverting anger away from the Assad regime and perhaps give Assad a little more room to slaughter civilians out of fear of something worse.
UPDATE: The Israeli military certainly sees Iran's hand in trying to deflect Syrian protester anger away from Assad:
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday accused Iran of orchestrating two waves of fighting along its northern borders, as Palestinian protesters tried to infiltrate from Syria and Lebanon during demonstrations to mark Nakba Day, which commemorates the "catastrophe" of the creation of the State of Israel.
That's dangerous. I mean, if Syrians don't demonstrate that they are more angry at Israel on this occasion, what does it say about how bad the people think Assad is?
