A top U.N. official has criticized Israel’s killings of unarmed demonstrators on the Syrian border. Up to 40 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in two separate Israeli shootings of unarmed protesters in the Golan Heights. Twenty-three people were killed after crossing from Syria into a buffer zone this past Sunday. In a statement, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said, “The use of live ammunition against allegedly unarmed protesters, resulting in large numbers of deaths and injuries, inevitably raises the question of unnecessary and excessive use of force.”