BBC News with Jonathan Izard
Israeli troops have fired at protesters on the Lebanese and Syrian borders. Tens of thousands of Palestinians and their supporters had marched to the borders to mark the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel. The Lebanese army says 10 people have been killed and more than 120 injured. This demonstrator in Lebanon described the confrontation as he saw it.
"We were throwing rocks to the other side. Some of us were breaking stones and passing on for people to throw rocks. And first the Israeli soldiers were firing in the air, and then several of them were pointing their guns through the fence and shooting straight at the crowd. And it wasn't just single-shot fire; it was successive fire."
At the Syrian border, two men were killed and around 20 wounded as protesters
breach
ed a fence and crossed into the occupied Golan Heights. An Israeli army spokeswoman, Colonel Avital Leibovich, accused Syria of organising the unrest.
"The Syrian regime is
intentionally
attempting to
divert
the world's attention away from their brutal
crackdown
on their own civilians to the
incitement
on Israel's northern border."
Israeli troops have also clashed with Palestinian protesters in Gaza and the West Bank.
Anti-government protesters in Syria say that at least seven people have been killed by the Syrian army in the border town of Talkalakh, where a number of deaths were reported on Saturday. Activists say the military shelled several districts of the town in the latest effort to