Palestinian pro-al-Assad regime activists hold pictures of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Syrian flags during a march in solidarity with the Syrian regime, in the West Bank city of Nablus May 06, 2013. The Damascus regime's deputy foreign minister, Faisal al-Miqdad, said that Israeli air strikes at the weekend represented "a declaration of war" and betoken an alliance between Islamist terrorists and Israel. He said Syria would retaliate in its own time and in its own way. Photo by Nedal Eshtayah