Potential new flashpoints in the Middle East unrest have opened after Israel shot at pro-Palestinian protesters on its borders with Syria and Lebanon, killing at least 13 people and drawing furious condemnation from the Syrian regime.
Protests erupted in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem as well as on Israel's geopolitically sensitive northern borders, as Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops and police and hundreds were injured.
Demonstrators commemorating Nakba day, marking the 1948 war in which hundreds of thousands of people became refugees after being forced out of their homes, were met with live gunfire, rubber bullets, stun grenades and teargas.
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