Conflict Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Jihad movement attend a rally in Gaza City on March 29, 2008 urging Arab leaders gathered in for the Arab Summit in Damascus to support a bid to bridge the rift between rival Palestinian factions. President Bashar al-Assad opened a boycott-hit Arab summit today in the absence of half of the region's leaders, many of whom blame Damascus for the political crisis in Lebanon."photoo by Fady Adwan"