Netanyahu accuses Syria of abetting border clash

View Photo Gallery —  Israeli troops opened fire on scores of Palestinian protesters from Syria who tried to cross the frontier at the Israeli-held Golan Heights.

By Joel Greenberg

JERUSALEM — A day after Israel used lethal gunfire to repel protesters from Syria who tried to breach the frontier with the occupied Golan Heights, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu defended the army’s conduct and suggested that the Syrian government had used the protest to deflect attention from its own deadly crackdown on a popular uprising.

Syria said that 23 people were killed by Israeli fire during Sunday’s border confrontation, including a woman and a child, and it accused Israel of “flagrant aggression” against unarmed civilians.


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