Diary of the Syrian Transition – December 10, 2024

News:

-SANA changes its logo after the fall of the former regime

Statements from Foreign Leaders/Organizations:

-UN envoy to Syria: Syria stands at a crossroads now and current Israeli moves on Syrian territory must stop. Focus must be on preserving state institutions and that all groups are represented.

-Egyptian Foreign Ministry: Egypt affirms its keenness to communicate with its brothers in Syria and to exert every effort to ensure the success of the comprehensive political process that achieves the aspirations of the Syrian people. The critical stage requires making room for the participation of all Syrians in shaping the future and rebuilding institutions.

-U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: All countries must pledge to support a comprehensive and transparent process in Syria and refrain from interfering in its affairs.

-Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani: The importance of respecting the free choices of the Syrian people and Iraq’s readiness to help the Syrians in these circumstances and the transitional phase.

-Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: We strongly condemn the Zionist entity’s army’s violation of Syria’s sovereignty and its aggression against its lands after seizing the buffer zone. The Zionist entity is trying to impose a new reality that is consistent with the expansionist and settlement policy pursued by the occupation authorities.

Statements from Syrian Leaders:

-Syrian caretaker Prime Minister Eng. Mohammad al-Bashir: We were assigned by the General Command to run the Syrian government during a transitional period. This assignment aims to receive government files and institutions, ensure the return of workers to them, and activate their role, in a way that contributes to providing services to our people in free Syria.
The caretaker government was formed from a number of ministers of the revolutionary government, which is the Syrian Salvation Government. This government is a temporary caretaker government that will continue until March 2025, until the constitutional issues are decided. The tasks of the caretaker government are to maintain security, preserve the stability of institutions, and ensure that the state does not disintegrate. It also seeks to provide basic services to the people, until a new government is formed for Syria that achieves the aspirations of Syrian society. Our people deserve to live a dignified life and to be provided with the best and highest quality services. We hope that the ministers in the government of the deposed regime will be of assistance to the honorable ministers during the transitional period, especially with regard to handing over files, to ensure the continuity of providing services to our people without interruption. There are major challenges, but our previous experience in managing Idlib Governorate and the surrounding areas has given us extensive experience, which has contributed to refining the human resources and cadres that we possess, which makes us capable of bearing this great responsibility that has been entrusted to us.

-Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani: After liberating the eastern and western countryside of Deir al-Zour and the escape of the regime forces and Iranian militias from them, we announce that the city of Deir al-Zour and its military airport are completely liberated. Our fighters continue to advance in the areas and towns of Deir Ezzor countryside after taking control of the city center and the western and eastern countrysides.

-Ahmad Al-Shar’a: We will not hesitate to hold accountable the criminals, murderers, security and army officers involved in torturing the Syrian people. We will pursue war criminals and demand them from the countries to which they fled so that they may receive their just punishment. We will announce List No. 1 that includes the names of the most senior officials involved in torturing the Syrian people. We will offer rewards to anyone who provides information about senior army and security officers involved in war crimes. We have affirmed our commitment to tolerance for those whose hands are not stained with the blood of the Syrian people, and we have granted amnesty to those who were in compulsory service. The blood of innocent martyrs and the rights of detainees are a trust that we will not allow to be wasted or forgotten.

-Damascus University calls on all its academic and administrative staff to return to work to continue their work, stressing its keenness on all its staff so that we may be hand in hand in the stage of building the new Syria.

-Military Operations Department: Our forces have taken control of the entire city of Deir al-Zour. Our fighters continue to advance in the areas and towns of Deir al-Zour countryside after taking control of the city center and the western and eastern countrysides.

-Director of the General Transport Corporation in the Salvation Government, Baha’ al-Din Sharm: We are working to complete all necessary equipment in the transport corporations in the following cities: Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, in order to return the Pullman garages to work normally.

Primary Sources:

General Command of Syria:

Ahmed al-Shar’a “among his family in Damascus after its liberation“

Prime Minister’s Office:

Meeting of the Ministers of the Revolution in the Syrian Salvation Government, headed by Engineer Mohammed al-Bashir, with the government of the deposed regime to determine the procedures for receiving

Speech of Mohammed al-Bashir, who is tasked with forming the Syrian government

General Transport Foundation:

Zajil Company announces the activation of the internal transportation line in the capital Damascus starting tomorrow

Zajil Company announces the activation of the internal transportation line in the city of Homs starting tomorrow

Zajil Company announces the activation of a line within the city of Aleppo (Southern Ring Road) starting from 12-10-2024

Military Operations Department:

The Military Operations Department announces a general amnesty for all military personnel conscripted under compulsory service. Their lives are safe and aggression is prohibited.

Announcement on the opening of settlement centers for regime elements in the city of Homs

Statement on secret prisons

An important warning from the Military Operations Department to all military formations and our civilians in the Syrian coastal region

Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation:

The meeting held today at the Ministry of Agriculture, headed by the Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in the Salvation Government, Dr. Muhammad Taha Al-Ahmad

Ministry of Development and Humanitarian Affairs:

Distribution of humanitarian aid to the people of Nubl and Zahra’ cities after their return

Ministry of Economy and Materials:

Director of the General Organization for Grain Trade and Processing meets with the managers of public bakeries in the city of Aleppo to discuss work plans and improve the quality of services provided

Ministry of Health:

Ibn al-Nafis Hospital, affiliated with the Ministry of Health, returns to providing medical services to the people of Damascus and its countryside after the liberation of the city

Aleppo:

Resumption of work in the Aleppo Provincial Council at the Municipal Palace in Aleppo city

A working session brings together the General Telecommunications Corporation and the staff of the Aleppo branch

Resumption of work in government institutions and departments in the city of Aleppo

Road signs in Aleppo today

Aleppo City Management Committee meets with representatives of Christian sects in Aleppo “to congratulate the victory of the Syrian Revolution“

Hama:

Residents gathered at the entrance to Hama city, waiting for news about their sons from Sednaya prison

Hundreds of members of the criminal regime’s militias head to the Hama Police Command building to settle their status and be granted temporary cards