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GAZA, Aug 13 (KUNA) -- The Israeli military has recently started planting
new landmines along the armistice line in the Golan Heights between north
Israel and Syria, press reports reaching here from Israel said Saturday.
In its latest edition, the Israeli army's weekly magazine Ba'mahaneh
reported that the move aimed to prevent Syrian and Palestinian protesters from
attempting to storm the border lines.
The old mines failed to explode when the Palestinian and Syrian
sympathizers crossed the borders into Golan in mid May, according to the
report.
The Israeli army announced a few days ago that it will deploy more troops
along the northern borders with Syria and the northwestern borders with
Lebanon in order to rebuff any mass incursion into Israel.
The Palestinian exiles in Syria announced plans to organize demonstrations
in September to back their leader's bid for UN recognition of Palestinian
statehood.
In mid May the Israeli army killed some 20 Palestinian and Syrian
protesters who tried to cross the borders into the occupied Golan Heights to
mark the "Nakba" (catastrophe) Day for the Palestinians who were displaced
upon the creation of Israel on June 15, 1948. (end)
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