On February 10, a group aid vehicle United Nations humanitarian aid from Turkey has arrived in northwestern Syria. This is the second UN aid shipment to Syria following a massive earthquake near the Syrian-Turkish border earlier this week.
The media official at Syria’s Bab al-Hawa border crossing, Mazen Alloush, confirmed the second convoy of aid convoys. United Nations was present in Syria. Meanwhile, International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Paul Dillon said 14 trucks carrying humanitarian aid including electric heaters, tents, blankets and other items had crossed the Turkish border. Ky entered Syria to provide assistance to people displaced by the earthquake. This amount of aid is enough to supply regarding 1,100 households in Idlib province.
The Bab al-Hawa border gate is the only aid receiving point within the framework of cross-border humanitarian aid approved by the United Nations Security Council nearly a decade ago.
Transport through this border gate was halted following a strong earthquake on February 6, but then resumed on February 9 when the first United Nations convoy of six trucks. arrived in northwestern Syria, providing humanitarian aid to regarding 5,000 people.
On the same day, February 10, the World Food Program (WFP) called for the opening of more aid points at the Syria-Turkey border crossings in the context of the shortage of food aid in northwestern Syria. . WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, Corinne Fleischer, expressed concern regarding the situation in northwestern Syria, where 90% of the population depends on humanitarian assistance. Ms. Fleischer said the WFP had reached the area, but needed to replenish its stockpile of food aid.
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Regarding this issue, on the same day, a Turkish official said that Ankara is considering opening another border gate to allow aid to be sent into the Idlib area. In addition, Turkey will also discuss the reopening of the Yayladagi-Kasab border crossing between Turkey’s Hatay province and the Syrian government-controlled area of Latakia province on the Mediterranean coast for aid to the Syrians. earthquake victims were sent directly to areas under the control of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. These two provinces were severely affected by the recent earthquake.
According to official statistics, as of 20:00 on February 10 (Vietnam time), a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred on February 6, killing regarding 22,000 people in Turkey and Syria.
In Syria, where more than 3,300 people died, on February 10, President Bashar al-Assad made his first visit to the disaster area.
Syrian media reported that President Bashar al-Assad and his wife went to a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo to visit survivors of the earthquake disaster. He also visited the areas affected by the earthquake in Aleppo.
Phan An (VNA/Vietnam+)
