MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights—Syria and Israel traded accusations on Monday over the death toll in Sunday’s shootings along the border here as Israeli troops prepared for what pro-Palestinian demonstrators were promising would be another attempt to storm across the border on Tuesday.

Syrian police said they’d blocked dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators from reaching the hills around Majdal Shams on Monday. But Israel accused Syria of stoking the border tensions in hopes of diverting attention from its murderous campaign against anti-government protesters, which has claimed hundreds of lives in the past several weeks.

Syrian officials said 24 people were killed and 350 wounded on Sunday when hundreds of protesters tried to cross the border fence and Israeli troops opened fire.

Funerals were held on Monday for six of those who were killed in a Palestinian refugee camp outside the Syrian capital, Damascus. Officials said another 16 were to be buried later in the day in another camp.

Israeli officials expressed doubt over the figures Syrian officials released, saying they thought the death toll was about 10. But Defense Minister Ehud Barak acknowledged that Israeli officials had no way to know precisely.

The United States charged on Monday that Syria was behind the confrontations.

“This is clearly an attempt by Syria to incite these kinds of protests,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. “Israel, like any sovereign nation, has a right to defend itself.”

It’s been nearly 30 years since Israel and Syria last fought a direct war, but tensions were high here on Monday as protesters vowed in forums on Facebook and Twitter to regroup and try again on Tuesday. Israeli troops here were on standby, warily eying the fence that’s marked the border for more than a generation.

Majdal Shams is claimed by both Syria and Israel. It’s been under Israeli control since the 1967 Six-Day War and was effectively annexed to Israel in 1981, when Israel installed a civilian administration here.

The conflicting allegiances of the village were on full display this week. Many turned out to support the protesters, only to be hushed by village elders.

“I believe in what they are doing, and I wish I could march toward them,” said Salim Abu Arar, a 26-year-old resident of Majdal Shams. “Even if it is all the work of the Syrian government.”