The Syrian cabinet decided on Monday to launch a public donation campaign to support the people of Gaza, the official SANA news agency reported.

In a weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Ottri, the ministers vowed to bolster their country’s support campaigns and aid convoys to Gaza, which already amounted to 280 tons of aid in various kind.

They also underlined the efforts led by President Bashar al-Assad to end the Israeli aggression on Gaza, break the siege, and open crossing points to deliver food, medicine, medical supplies and other basic requirements into the Gaza Strip.

The cabinet urged the UN Security Council and the international community to assume responsibility for the situation in Gaza, stop the aggression, condemn Israel’s brutal crimes, and bring those responsible to justice for committing crimes against humanity, SANA said.

Also on Monday, thousands of Syrian workers staged a sit-in outside the General Federation of Arab Trade Unions headquarters in Damascus, condemning the Israeli aggression on Gaza and supporting the Palestinian people, according to SANA.

The workers called on Arab countries, the UN and the Security Council to mobilize immediately to stop the Israeli aggression, lift the siege, and open crossing points to deliver medical and food supplies to the people of Gaza. They also denounced the U.S. administration’s support to Israel.

The participants burned American and Israeli flags and effigies of Israeli leaders and their supporters in Washington, chanting slogans condemning the silence of some countries over the massacres committed by Israel in Gaza.

Meanwhile, masses of Syrian and Arab women participated on Monday in a sit-in in Damascus in a show of support to the Palestinian people and protest of the Israeli aggression.

Israel launched airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Dec. 27 and a ground operation on Jan. 3 in retaliation of Hamas militants’ rocket attacks into Israel, which has killed 537 Palestinians and wounded 2,600 others.

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