Day: March 19, 2024

Occupied Jerusalem, Palestinian Health Ministry announced that the Israeli occupation committed 9 massacres in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, leaving 93 martyrs and 142 wounded.

The number of victims of the ongoing occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 31,819 martyrs and 73,934 wounded for the 165th day in a row, while a number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them, the Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

On the other hand, the Palestine Red Crescent Society noted that since the beginning of the aggression, the occupation has been bombing its headquarters, arresting its workers, and attacking their staff, causing the martyrdom of 14, in flagrant violation of international laws and conventions that guarantee the protection of medical facilities and their workers.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Moscow, The People’s Assembly delegation that accompanied the presidential elections in Russia met with Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia, discussing with him ways to strengthen parliamentary bilateral relations.

The head of the Syrian-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Committee, a member of the People’s Assembly, Bassem Sudan, confirmed that the Russian presidential elections were held in an organized and transparent manner, and witnessed a strong turnout of Russian voters in all regions of Russia, especially in Donbas, pointing out that the Supreme Elections Committee in Russia played its role and secured all means to facilitate the polling.

Sudan said that the Assembly delegation accompanied the elections in Moscow and its suburbs, as well as in the Donbas region, where voters participated for the first time in electing the Russian president and exercised their right to express their opinion and their loyalty and affiliation with Russia.

Sudan stressed that the scale
of the Western and American attack against the Russian elections is evidence that Russia is on the right track, and will inevitably triumph in its confrontation with Western schemes.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Geneva, Abdul Hameed Dashti, President of the International Council Supporting Fair Trial and Human Rights, stressed that the Commission of Inquiry on Syria continues to politicize its reports in a way that serves the conspiring countries, noting that ending the suffering of the Syrian people requires stopping the aggressive war and lifting coercive Western economic measures.

Before the 55th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Dashti added that the Commission still works to distort the reality of the situation, explaining that these same countries have abandoned condemning the crimes of genocide committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip.

Dashti noted that the Commission’s tireless work according to these impotent mechanisms is nothing but a factor of support for the Israeli occupation and a cover-up for its continuing attacks on Syria, which were not addressed in the Commission’s report.

ing the suffering of the Syrians requires that the Com
mission finish its work and refer the matter to the Human Rights Council to take a decision in order to refer the matter, in turn, to the UN Security Council for a decision stopping the war and ending the siege imposed on Syria, Dashti stressed.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Damascus, Minister of Administrative Development, Salam Safaf, discussed with Ambassador of India in Damascus, Irshad Ahmad, aspects of cooperation in the administrative domain and means of developing them.

During the meeting, Safaf underlined the importance of bilateral cooperation, particularly in the field of building capabilities and human resources development, hailing the training programs offered by India in Syria, showing the Ministry’s desire to boost cooperation in the E-program and recruitments.

Ambassador Ahmnad, for his part, briefed the Minister on the experiment of his country in recruitment and the civil service tests, showing his country’s willingness to double cooperation with Syria in the administrative domain.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Damascus, The Cabinet on Tuesday adopted the strategy of Information Ministry to develop the press sector that moves towards building a pioneering media in its values, performance and investment in the human energies, providing an environment that stirs for innovation and promoting the performance of journalists.

The Cabinet, in a weekly session headed by Prime Minister, Hussein Arnous, agreed to increase the nature compensation of jobs related to press task in the public sector to become 8 % of the monthly salary in addition to 5 % as compensation for the distinguished body and mental efforts.

The government discussed preparations to set a comprehensive vision to treat the status of destroyed companies by terrorism to rehabilitate them and activate the productive operations and invest in the human cadres.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency

Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, and the accompanying delegation.

President al-Assad discussed with Grossi cooperation between Syria and the International Agency in the peaceful programs and projects, particularly in the fields of health, cancer treatments, agriculture, and scientific research.

Grossi, for his part, stressed the importance of building a constructive and continuous dialogue between the International Agency and Syria.

Source: Syrian Arab News Agency