Palestinian protests for the annual Nakba Day, which mourns the creation of the State of Israel, took hold across the region, leaving four people dead Sunday as IDF troops opened fire on infiltrators trying to breach Syria's southern border with Israel. In Majdal Shams, which runs along the Israel-Syria border, Palestinian refugees from Syria spilled into the town. While thousands of people gathered in the Lebanese town of Maroun a-Ras, where Palestinian protesters tried to push their way across the border. Four protesters were killed and 11 wounded in a shooting incident at the border where Palestinians were demonstrating. Carrying Palestinian flags thousands of Palestinians tried to approach the electric fence that separates Lebanon from Israel, but Lebanese army troops fired in the air and ordered the crowd to return to where the rally was held. Protesters managed to reach the fence and started throwing stones at the Israeli soldiers on the other side of the fence, prompting the IDF troops to fire bullets and tear gas at the protesters. Speakers representing the various Palestinian factions called through loudspeakers on the Palestinian youths to stop throwing stones at the Israeli troops, but their calls were ignored.