The Iraqi government issued a series of "important" decisions during an extraordinary session held under the chairmanship of Adel Abdul-Mahdi, in response to the demands of participants in the protests that began last week that resulted in the death of 104 people. About $ 145 a month for the unemployed for three months.

The new resolutions included 17 paragraphs, the most prominent of which considered the victims of the demonstrators and the security services «martyrs» and covered by the laws in force, and granting their families the rights and privileges ensuing, and the Council instructed the Ministry of Health to provide treatment services for the wounded protesters and security forces and provide full needs at the expense of the government, including Treatment outside Iraq if required.

The Iraqi government decided to open the door for volunteering for the youth in the army, and the ministries of defense and interior to take the basic procedures to return the decommissioned contracts in all provinces, and also facilitate access to residential land and the construction of new units, in addition to granting 175 thousand dinars (about $ 145 per month) for the unemployed and for Three months, the decisions also included the establishment of modern marketing complexes in commercial areas of Baghdad and the provinces.

The Council decided to open the door to apply for residential land allocated to low-income people and other categories and to complete the distribution of 17 thousand pieces of housing for low-income beneficiaries in the province of Basra, and within a period not exceeding four weeks, and decided to prepare and implement a national housing program to build 100,000 distributed housing units Over the governorates, giving priority to the poorest provinces and regions.

The decisions also included the preparation of a program to train and qualify the unemployed with the ability to work, and the number of 150 thousand young graduates and non-graduates with the payment of a grant during the training period, and the employment of those who successfully pass the training courses in investment companies operating in Iraq. The Baghdad provincial council voted yesterday to accept the resignation of the governor Falah al-Jazairi, according to Iraqi state television in an urgent news, that «the Baghdad Provincial Council voted to accept the resignation of the Algerian from his post», according to a source familiar with the Council opened the door for nomination to choose an alternative to the resigning governor.

The demonstrations, which began on Tuesday, witnessed acts of violence, shooting and burning a number of political parties' headquarters, which the demonstrators accuse of being behind the acts of corruption in the country.In contrast, the Iraqi authorities accused "unidentified snipers" of firing on security forces and civilians.

The Interior Ministry announced yesterday evening that 104 people were killed, including eight security forces, and the number of injured 6107, including 1241 members of the security forces, and spokesman for the ministry, Saad Maan, told reporters, that the recent wave of demonstrations witnessed the burning of eight Party headquarters and 51 other buildings confirmed that government forces had not fired directly at protesters during the past days.

A security source said yesterday that a civilian was killed by an armed attack by unknown assailants east of Baghdad. The source said that unidentified gunmen opened fire with machine guns towards a civilian within the area of ​​seven palaces east of Baghdad, killing him on the spot, explaining that a security force imposed a cordon on the incident area And carried out a raid and search for the perpetrators who fled to an unknown destination, pointing to the transfer of the dead body to the Department of Forensic Medicine.

The Iraqi parliament speaker, Mohammed al-Halbousi, said that a cabinet reshuffle would be considered if Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi requested it, adding in remarks to Al-Arabiya television that no one was behind the demonstrators, but pointed to the presence of "tucked" in Protests, as he put it.

Halbousi added: «If the demands of the demonstrators are not implemented, I will take them down to the street», stressing that the so-called “big whales” of corrupt must be put in prisons, pointing out that a committee of parliament was formed to determine the targeting of demonstrators and security forces, and pointed to the possibility Terminate the blocks to suspend their membership in parliament if there is a clear government program.

The United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) called yesterday for an end to violence in Iraq, stressing that those responsible for the violence must be held accountable. ».

Accepting the resignation of the governor of Baghdad, Falah al-Jazairi.

Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament:

"If the demands of the demonstrators are not met, I will take them down to the street."