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UN leader warns Israel-Syria tensions could escalate

UNITED NATIONS - UN leader Ban Ki-moon appealed Sunday to Israel and Syria to ease tensions on their disputed Golan Heights frontier amid warnings that conflict in Syria could spread.

 

Israel fired warning shots into Syria after a mortar from the Syrian side hit an Israeli position in the Golan, officials said.

 

"The secretary general is deeply concerned by the potential for escalation," said the UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.

 

"He calls for the utmost restraint" and urges both side to uphold the 1974 accord which set up a ceasefire line and demilitarized zone which is patrolled by UN forces.

 

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