Syrian airports are still receiving aid planes provided by brotherly and friendly countries to the Syrians, and yesterday 6 planes landed in the airports of Damascus, Latakia and Aleppo, one international, one Pakistani and 4 Emirati, raising the number of Emirati planes that have arrived in Syria so far to 146 planes out of a total of 283 planes. help.
The arrival of the UAE aircraft coincided with a visit by the President of the UAE, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, accompanied by his sons and grandchildren, to the “Bridges of Good” campaign held in the “Mubadala Arena” in Abu Dhabi, to provide relief to those affected by the earthquake in Syria and Turkey, with the participation of volunteers in addition to the employees of the “Authority Authority”. The Emirates Red Crescent.
The “Bridges of Good” campaign comes within the framework of the efforts undertaken by the UAE to provide urgent relief aid to those affected by the earthquake in Syria and Turkey. With the affected Syrian and Turkish families, and support this voluntary initiative under these difficult circumstances, to compile and mobilize humanitarian relief packages.
Yesterday, the Emirates Red Crescent Authority in Jableh opened a temporary field camp of fifty tents, accommodating 300 people, equipped with beds, blankets, solar lighting, and food parcels, in order to secure the necessary shelter for the afflicted and affected by the earthquake in Syria, in the presence of Chargé d’Affairs at the UAE Embassy in Damascus, Abdul Hakim Al Nuaimi. and Acting Secretary General of the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, Hammoud Abdullah Al Junaibi.
In parallel, a plane carrying relief aid provided by the United Nations to those affected by the earthquake arrived at Damascus International Airport. The head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Syria, Sivanka Danapala, said: “The plane carries 40 tons of aid, including blankets and lamps that operate on solar energy.” He indicated that the needs are great, and the United Nations will continue to provide relief materials and support to those who lost their homes as a result of the earthquake.
Danapala pointed out that, in addition to relief materials, the United Nations provides psychological and social support to those affected by the earthquake in shelters, to relieve them and help them overcome their ordeal.
Meanwhile, a Pakistani plane arrived at Damascus International Airport carrying 1.5 tons of relief aid, food and medicine, in conjunction with the arrival of an Emirati aid plane provided by the Emirates Red Crescent to the same airport carrying 25 tons and 140 kg of food and medical supplies.
Meanwhile, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Iraqi Embassy in Damascus, Yassin Sharif Al-Hujaimi, said in a statement, a copy of which Al-Watan received: “The military shrine in Samarra sent aid and subsidies, including food and relief items, to the brotherly Syrian people in the stricken provinces.
He added: The aid includes rice, sugar, tomato paste and yeast, in addition to infant formula and diapers, noting that their weight is estimated at 600 tons.
Al-Hujaimi indicated that aid will continue to the Syrian people until the end of the crisis.
At dawn today, 30 tons of aid arrived from the Syrian community in Moscow via a military plane to Hmeimim Airport, and 181 parcels aboard Syrian Airlines to Damascus, to be delivered to the Syrian Trust for Development.