Sunday, 5th June 2011.
Nachsa Day - marking the 6 day war of 1967.
Hundreds of Syrian citizens of Palestinian origin attempted a repeat of the 15th of May events, running the border between Syria and the Israeli annexed Golan Heights, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams.
The Israeli army fired tear gas and some live rounds at the unarmed protests trying to cross the border into Israel.
According to the IDF 5 protestors were shot to death, and another 8 were killed when an old landmine exploded inside the Syrian territory, after protestors threw Molotov cocktails and started fires.
According to Syrian official media, the number of killed protesters is almost double and many wounded.
That same day, some 80-120 Syrian security personnel were killed in what is reported by the Syrian regime as an ambush by armed gangs, and by the opposition as a butchering of soldiers by their fellows and commanders for refusing to fire at unarmed protestors.
Also that same day, at least 35 civilians were killed in the Syrian town of Jisser A-shgor by President Assad's security forces in another bloody round of growing civil unrest.
Israeli media, as usual, neglected to ask to obvious question - why were unarmed protestors shot and killed? Were they posing a serious threat to the soldiers? Was the shooting necessary? Was it moral?
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