Dozens shot in Israeli-occupied Golan:Israel Radio

Dozens of people wounded in a shooting incident on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

JERUSALEM: Dozens of people were wounded in a shooting incident on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday as Palestinian refugees from neighbouring Syria broke through a frontier fence, Israel Radio said.

The incident, in the village of Majdal Shams, occurred on the day Palestinians held demonstrations to mark the "Nakba" or catastrophe of Israel's founding in 1948.

Dolan Abu Salah, the village's mayor, said between 40 and 50 Nakba demonstrators reached Majdal Shams, on the Israeli side of the frontier of the normally quiet Golan Heights.

"The way it was reported to me, they broke through the fence," he told the radio, which reported that dozens of people were wounded by gunfire.

The Israeli military declined immediate comment.

Israel captured the Golan Heights, a strategic northern plateau overlooking the Sea of Galilee, from Syria in a 1967 war.