AL-HAMMAM CROSSING, Syria — The group Doctors Without Borders referred to as Sunday for the “urgent scaling up” of earthquake support to northwest Syria because it delivered a convoy laden with emergency help.
Aid has been sluggish to succeed in Syria’s rebel-held areas for the reason that February 6 quake killed a mixed whole of greater than 43,000 individuals throughout Turkey and Syria.
“An urgent increase in the volume of supplies is needed to match the scale of the humanitarian crisis,” mentioned the French support group Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
It charged that provides “currently fail to even match pre-earthquake volumes.”
“Aid is trickling in in negligible amounts for the moment,” mentioned Hakim Khaldi, MSF’s head of mission in Syria. “We emptied our emergency stocks in three days.”
“According to UN data, five days after the earthquake, only 10 trucks had entered” rebel-held areas of Syria by way of the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey, MSF mentioned.
It added that “in the 10 days following the earthquake, the number of trucks that crossed the border into northwest Syria was lower than the average weekly number for 2022.”
A convoy of 14 vehicles laden with 1,269 tents and winter kits despatched by MSF had arrived in Syria by way of the Al-Hammam crossing within the Afrin space on Sunday.
“The delivery was arranged outside of the United Nations cross-border humanitarian mechanism,” the group mentioned.
Activists and emergency groups in Syria’s northwest have decried a sluggish UN response to the quake in rebel-held areas, contrasting it with the planeloads of support which were delivered to government-controlled airports.
Before the quake struck, nearly all the essential humanitarian support for the greater than 4 million individuals residing in rebel-controlled areas was being delivered by way of only one crossing, Bab al-Hawa.
The UN introduced on Monday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had agreed to open two extra border crossings from Turkey to northwest Syria to permit in support.
Since the quake, the UN has despatched greater than 170 support vehicles to northwest Syria.
The battle in Syria began in 2011 with the brutal repression of peaceable protests and escalated to tug in international powers and international jihadists.
Nearly half one million individuals have been killed, and the battle has pressured round half of the nation’s pre-war inhabitants from their houses. — Agence France-Presse
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