Palestinians bury protests’ dead

Nakba protests were also held in Cairo

Funerals are due to be held in Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon following the deaths of 12 people on Sunday in demonstrations on Israel’s borders.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said the Jewish state is determined to defend its sovereignty.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians and their supporters marched towards Israel from Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

In one incident, thousands from Syria entered the Golan Heights, Israel says.

There was also unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Cairo, Egyptian security forces fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators outside the Israeli embassy.

The protests were held to mark the Nakba, or Catastrophe – the Palestinian term for the founding of the Israeli state in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lost their homes.

Mr Netanyahu has warned against further protests on Israel’s borders.

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