A girl of the Druze community attends a rally marking Syria's Independence Day in the Druze village of Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights, on April 17, 2014. Hundreds of members of the Druze community took part in the rally on Thursday to mark Syria's independence day. Israel captured the Golan Heights in a 1967 war and then annexed the strategic territory overlooking northern Israel in 1981. [Xinhua]