More than 140 vans carrying humanitarian help provides crossed into opposition-held northwestern Syria from Türkiye because the two main earthquakes devastated the 2 neighboring international locations on Feb. 6, the United Nations mentioned Friday.
“Since Feb. 9 up to last night, we had a total of 143 trucks going through the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salama border crossings,” Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian company OCHA, informed reporters in Geneva.
“The movements continue today. They continue over the weekend and will continue every day for as long as the needs are there.”
Eleven days after the quake that killed greater than 41,000 individuals in Turkey and Syria, the state of affairs in Syria’s opposition-held northwest stays dire because of the sluggish arrival of help to a area ravaged by years of battle.
Before the earthquake struck, nearly all of the essential humanitarian help for the greater than 4 million individuals dwelling there was delivered via only one crossing, Bab al-Hawa.
Operations there have been quickly disrupted by the quake injury.
It took 4 days to get help shifting throughout that border crossing once more, and earlier this week, Assad regime agreed to permit the U.N. to open two additional border crossings to assist deliver in additional help.
“We expect to have trucks crossing every single day,” Laerke mentioned.
So far, help has flowed via the Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salama crossings however no vans have gone via the third crossing, Al Raee, he mentioned.
“That doesn’t mean that it is not going to come, but it is a bit further away from the hub and the U.N. monitoring mechanism that is inspecting all of the aid that is coming through,” he mentioned.
Laerke mentioned the vans which have crossed because the quake have been carrying “a multitude of aid” from six U.N. companies: the International Organization for Migration, the U.N. refugee company UNHCR, the UN Population Fund, the U.N. kids’s company Unicef, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization.
“Aid has so far included tents, non-food items, such as mattresses and blankets, winter clothes, cholera testing kits, essential medicines and World Food Programme food,” he mentioned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
