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Up to 12 people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday as violence erupted on three points along the Israeli border as Arab protesters commemorated their mass displacement in the foundation of Israel. In the most serious incident, the Israeli military said thousands of protesters approached Syria's border with the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. It said hundreds of people burst through the border, and soldiers opened fire to stop them. Dozens were wounded and six were reported killed. Deadly clashes also took place along Israel's nearby northern border with Lebanon, as well as in the Gaza Strip, near Israel's southern border. In Gaza there are about 500 people who have gathered on the border, at the Erez crossing into Gaza. They've gone into what's called a buffer zone between Gaza and Israel and the Israelis opened fire with tank shells landing a few hundred yards away from protestors and automatic fire. The protests mark what Palestinians call the nakba or catastrophe day on which Israel was formed in 1948. Arab television stations of what appeared to be thousands of people gathering along the Syrian border with the Golan, with large crowds throwing objects at the fence. Dozens of people could be seen cutting through the fence and storming across to the Israeli side. Israeli officials accused Syria of fomenting the violence in an attempt to divert attention from the deadly crackdown on weeks of protests against the rule of President Bashar Assad. The militant group <b>...</b>