Syrians denounce failed aid response after devastating quake
1 year, 10 months ago

Syrians denounce failed aid response after devastating quake

Al Jazeera  

Syrian activists decry the lack of international assistance to quake victims in its hard-hit northwest region. Bab al-Hawa, Syria – With hundreds of people trapped, rescuers have lamented the lack of international humanitarian assistance desperately needed after the devastating earthquake that killed thousands in northwest Syria. “I call on the international community, the Arab countries, and the United Nations to urgently help us,” he said, standing by the Bab al-Hawa border crossing. “We are standing here by the border crossing to ask for humanitarian aid so we can save some of the people under the rubble.” On Wednesday, the World Health Organization said it is deploying teams and three flights with medical supplies to Turkey and Syria. “Every half hour or so we see cars carrying the bodies of Syrian people who died in the earthquake in Turkey crossing the border into Syria,” he said.

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Syria’s government extends permission for UN to bring aid through border crossing with Turkey
11 months, 1 week ago

Syria’s government extends permission for UN to bring aid through border crossing with Turkey

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Syria’s government is giving the United Nations permission for another six months to use a major border crossing with Turkey to bring aid into the country’s rebel-held northwest. Syria’s mission to the U.N. said in a statement late Thursday that the Bab al-Hawa crossing should be “effectively operationalized in a way that contributes to helping people in need …

Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk
1 year, 4 months ago

Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. David Miliband’s comments came more than two weeks after …

Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk
1 year, 4 months ago

Aid group official warns that impasse at the UN on border crossing puts 4.1 million Syrians at risk

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — An impasse at the United Nations over a border crossing with Syria’s last rebel-held enclave is putting 4.1 million Syrian there in danger, the president of the International Rescue Committee warned this week. David Miliband’s comments came more than two weeks after the U.N. Security Council failed to renew the mandate for the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between …

Medical and aid groups in northwest Syria fear worse conditions if aid flow from Turkey stops
1 year, 5 months ago

Medical and aid groups in northwest Syria fear worse conditions if aid flow from Turkey stops

Associated Press  

IDLIB, Syria — Youssef al-Ramadan says he always feels guilty for having to put his wife and three children to work in order to survive — and now they might not be able to get by since international aid could stop flowing from Turkey. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric underscored Wednesday that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “is not giving up” on trying …

UN warns that 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, while millions face cuts in food aid
1 year, 5 months ago

UN warns that 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, while millions face cuts in food aid

The Independent  

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UN warns that 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, while millions face cuts in food aid
1 year, 5 months ago

UN warns that 90% of Syrians are below the poverty line, while millions face cuts in food aid

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the 12-year conflict in Syria has pushed 90% of its population below the poverty line, and that millions face cuts in food aid next month because of a funding shortfall. But Russia’s U.N. ambassador, whose country is Syria’s most important ally, called the cross-border aid deliveries “a zero-sum game” that …

UN aid enters Syrian rebel enclave from government territory in first such crossing since earthquake
1 year, 6 months ago

UN aid enters Syrian rebel enclave from government territory in first such crossing since earthquake

Associated Press  

IDLIB, Syria — A convoy carrying U.N. aid entered Syria’s last rebel-held enclave from government-held territory on Friday, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since February’s deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. After the February earthquake that struck Turkey and northern Syria, causing widespread destruction, convoys have been prevented from entering the province of Idlib from …

Donor nations commit $10.3 billion for millions of Syrians at home and as refugees abroad
1 year, 6 months ago

Donor nations commit $10.3 billion for millions of Syrians at home and as refugees abroad

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — International donors said Thursday they would commit $10.3 billion in aid for millions of Syrians battered by war, poverty, and hunger, both at home and as refugees abroad. “This is a tangible demonstration that the international community stands by the Syrian people,” said EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Janez Lenarčič, who closed out the day-long meeting at the headquarters …

Syria extends opening of 2 border crossings with Turkey for quake aid
1 year, 7 months ago

Syria extends opening of 2 border crossings with Turkey for quake aid

Associated Press  

DAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian government has agreed to extend by another three months the use of two border crossings with Turkey into the rebel-held northwest that were opened for aid delivery after a deadly earthquake in February, Syrian and U.N. officials said Saturday. Syrian President Bashar Assad had agreed to open the border crossings at Bab al-Salameh and al-Rai …

Turkiye-Syria Earthquake | International community ignores quake-hit Syria, its dead and the dying
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkiye-Syria Earthquake | International community ignores quake-hit Syria, its dead and the dying

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 24, 2023 17:59 IST Deep down in the southern Turkish province of Hatay, not far from the town of Reyhanli, as a few dozen UN trucks carrying relief supplies for Syria’s earthquake-stricken areas pass the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, Muhammed Sheikh, a 42-year-old Syrian who was displaced from Aleppo a decade ago because of the war, mourns …

Over 140 aid trucks have entered rebel-held Syria since quake, says UN
1 year, 10 months ago

Over 140 aid trucks have entered rebel-held Syria since quake, says UN

Firstpost  

Eleven days after the quake that killed more than 41,000 people in Turkey and Syria, the situation in Syria’s rebel-held northwest remains dire due to the slow arrival of aid to a region ravaged by years of conflict Geneva: More than 140 trucks carrying desperately-needed aid have crossed into rebel-held northwestern Syria from Turkey since a giant earthquake devastated the …

Syrian refugees return home from Turkey after quake devastation
1 year, 10 months ago

Syrian refugees return home from Turkey after quake devastation

Al Jazeera  

Syrians are hoping conditions in their war-ravaged homeland are better than quake-hit Turkey. Bab al-Hawa, Syria – Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Turkey who survived last week’s earthquakes are returning to their war-torn homeland after once again losing everything. “At Bab al-Hawa, we are facilitating the entry of our Syrian people coming from Turkey … by giving them papers proving …

Key developments in the aftermath of Turkey, Syria quakes
1 year, 10 months ago

Key developments in the aftermath of Turkey, Syria quakes

Associated Press  

ANTAKYA, Turkey — The earthquakes that killed more than 39,000 people in southern Turkey and northern Syria produced more grieving and suffering along with extraordinary rescues and appeals for aid. Here’s a look at key developments Wednesday from the aftermath of the earthquakes: DEFYING ODDS AFTER NINE DAYS A woman and her two children – a boy and a girl …

UN appeals for $397 million to help Syrian quake survivors
1 year, 10 months ago

UN appeals for $397 million to help Syrian quake survivors

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief launched a $397 million appeal Tuesday to help nearly 5 million survivors of last week’s devastating earthquake in rebel-held northwest Syria who have received very little assistance because of deep divisions exacerbated by the country’s 12-year war. Guterres said the devastation from the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that ravaged southern Turkey and northwestern Syria …

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Assad Agrees to Open Two More Border Crossing Points for Aid Delivery
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Assad Agrees to Open Two More Border Crossing Points for Aid Delivery

News 18  

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday announced that two border crossing points between Turkey and north-west Syria, at Bab al-Salam and Al Ra’ee will be opened for three months to allow larger volume of emergency aid for those affected by the earthquake in northwestern Syria, according to the Guardian. The decision was welcomed by UN secretary general, António Guterres, as …

Earthquake aid reaches NW Syria via newly opened crossing
1 year, 10 months ago

Earthquake aid reaches NW Syria via newly opened crossing

Al Jazeera  

Eleven trucks carrying humanitarian assistance passed from Turkey to northwestern Syria through the Bab al-Salam crossing, UN says. Another 26 inter-agency trucks went through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, until now the only entry point for UN humanitarian aid to directly reach people in opposition-held northwestern Syria. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the scale of the devastation caused by the …

After quake, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid, rebuild
1 year, 10 months ago

After quake, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid, rebuild

Associated Press  

ATAREB, Syria — After years of war, residents of areas in northwest Syria struck by a massive earthquake are grappling with their new and worsening reality. Almost one week after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Syria and neighboring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international failure to help Syrian quake victims. “My duty and our obligation is …

Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll passes 35,000
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll passes 35,000

The Hindu  

The toll from last week’s earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose above 35,000 on Monday, as rescue teams started to wind down the search for survivors and the aid effort shifted to hundreds of thousands of people made homeless. While hundreds of rescue teams were still working, efforts had ended in seven parts of the province, he added Lack of …

‘It’s destroying me’: Syrian Americans haunted by earthquake devastation plea for world’s help
1 year, 10 months ago

‘It’s destroying me’: Syrian Americans haunted by earthquake devastation plea for world’s help

CNN  

CNN — Every time Abdulrahman Al-Dahhan closes his eyes at night, he hears the screams of friends and family in Syria pleading for help. “It’s a crisis within a crisis,” says Leena Zahra, a Syrian American and humanitarian worker focused on increasing mental health access to globally displaced people. “‘Will I just be another statistic or another undignified picture that …

After the earthquakes, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid
1 year, 10 months ago

After the earthquakes, war-hit Syrians struggle to get aid

Al Jazeera  

After years of war, residents in northwest Syria affected by the massive earthquakes are grappling with their new and worsening reality. One week after the devastating earthquakes struck northern Syria and neighbouring Turkey, the United Nations has acknowledged an international failure to help Syrian quake victims. In Atareb, a town that Syrian rebels still hold after years of fighting government …

Turkey probes contractors as earthquake deaths pass 33,000
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey probes contractors as earthquake deaths pass 33,000

Associated Press  

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Turkish authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked with buildings that collapsed in the powerful Feb. 6 earthquakes as rescuers found more survivors in the rubble Sunday, including a pregnant woman and two children, in the disaster that killed over 33,000 people. In the Syrian capital of Damascus, the head of the World Health Organization warned that the …

Islamist group preventing aid into earthquake hit northern Syria: UN
1 year, 10 months ago

Islamist group preventing aid into earthquake hit northern Syria: UN

Firstpost  

Northern Syria, largely controlled by the HTS, is amongst the worst hit in the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria on Monday that has, so far, killed more than 28,000 people in both countries New Delhi: The much-needed aid for Earthquake hit northern Syria has been held up by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a United Nations …

Turkiye-Syria Earthquake: Death Toll Crosses 28,000 Mark, Clashes Hamper Rescue Ops — Updates
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkiye-Syria Earthquake: Death Toll Crosses 28,000 Mark, Clashes Hamper Rescue Ops — Updates

ABP News  

New Delhi: The death toll due to the deadly earthquake in Turkiye and Syria has crossed the 28,000 mark with many still being feared dead, reported BBC. - An Austrian army spokesperson said that clashes between unidentified groups in the Hatay province had left dozens of personnel from the Austrian Forces Disaster Relief Unit seeking shelter in a base camp …

Rescuers denounce aid ‘failure’ in Syria’s devastated northwest
1 year, 10 months ago

Rescuers denounce aid ‘failure’ in Syria’s devastated northwest

Al Jazeera  

Civil defence members in northwest Syria criticise the UN and international community for a slow aid response after two deadly earthquakes. On Sunday, al-Saleh responded to Griffiths’s tweeted apology, saying: “After meeting today with @UNReliefChief at Turkish-Syrian border, we appreciate the apology for the shortcomings and mistakes.” He went on to urge the UN to work to open more land …

Live Updates I Focus turns to quake aid, as rescues continue
1 year, 10 months ago

Live Updates I Focus turns to quake aid, as rescues continue

Associated Press  

Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people from the rubble four days after a catastrophic 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 23,000 in Turkey and Syria. ___ KEY DEVELOPMENTS: — Death toll rises, rescues dwindle in quake aftermath — Powerful quakes link Turkey, Syria and Japan in suffering — Turkey’s lax policing of …

UN calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Syria to facilitate earthquake aid
1 year, 10 months ago

UN calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Syria to facilitate earthquake aid

Firstpost  

Geneva: The United Nations rights chief called on Friday for an immediate ceasefire in Syria to help facilitate bringing aid to all victims of the region’s devastating earthquake. “UN human rights chief Volker Turk calls for immediate ceasefire in Syria, and full respect for human rights and humanitarian law obligations so help can reach everyone,” it added. The rebel-held areas …

Live Updates I Aid, rescues in quake-hit Turkey, Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

Live Updates I Aid, rescues in quake-hit Turkey, Syria

Associated Press  

Rescuers pulled more survivors from beneath collapsed buildings Thursday, but hopes were fading of finding many more people alive after the catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. Guterres spoke to reporters at U.N. headquarters Thursday, hours after a U.N. aid convoy crossed from Turkey into Syria’s rebel-held northwest for the first time since Monday’s 7.8 magnitude quake. ___ U.N. …

More than 21,000 people killed in Turkey-Syria earthquake
1 year, 10 months ago

More than 21,000 people killed in Turkey-Syria earthquake

Firstpost  

Chances of finding survivors have dimmed now that the 72-hour mark that experts consider the most likely period to save lives has passed Ankara: The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kept on climbing Thursday, topping 21,000 as the first UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held zones but hopes of finding more survivors faded. But in a …

Turkey-Syria earthquakes day five: What do we know so far?
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey-Syria earthquakes day five: What do we know so far?

Al Jazeera  

Hope of finding survivors is dwindling as the death toll tops 21,500 in Turkey and Syria. Rescue workers are digging into the rubble for a fifth consecutive day to find more survivors of the devastating earthquakes that have killed tens of thousands of people and swept away entire cities in Turkey and Syria this week. “This collapsed building has been …

Opinion: Yes, you can help the Turkey-Syria earthquake victims
1 year, 10 months ago

Opinion: Yes, you can help the Turkey-Syria earthquake victims

LA Times  

The Antakya I know is a cosmopolitan city in southern Turkey. My employer, a French humanitarian agency, operated across the border in Syria’s northern Idlib province, providing assisted walking devices and rehabilitation therapy to civilians who’d lost limbs in the Syrian war. Any and all items needed for an emergency response can almost certainly be bought nearby, which helps ensure …

Turkey’s catastrophic earthquake puts Syria in the spotlight
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey’s catastrophic earthquake puts Syria in the spotlight

Al Jazeera  

The Take looks at why it has been harder for aid to reach northern Syria. Emergency aid is pouring into southeastern Turkey after Monday’s earthquakes, but why is it so much harder for aid to reach northern Syria? In this episode: Ammar, NGO worker living in Gaziantep, Turkey Emad, NGO worker living in Gaziantep Alper Ilki, president of the Turkish …

Days after quake, aid trucks reach northwest Syrian enclave
1 year, 10 months ago

Days after quake, aid trucks reach northwest Syrian enclave

Associated Press  

BAB AL-HAWA, Syria — A small convoy crossed from Turkey into Syria’s rebel-held northwest Thursday with desperately needed medicines, blankets, tents and U.N. shelter kits, the first aid to reach the enclave, three days after the devastating earthquake killed thousands. Before the convoy of six trucks, the only cargo coming across the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkey-Syria border was …

How to donate to Turkey and Syria earthquake disaster response
1 year, 10 months ago

How to donate to Turkey and Syria earthquake disaster response

Al Jazeera  

Watchdogs recommend researching before you give money, with several compiling lists of the most effective charities. Devastating earthquakes have killed thousands of people in southern Turkey and northern Syria, and dozens of countries have deployed search and rescue teams while humanitarian groups race to respond to the complex situation. The organisation, which focuses on groups either based in the United …

Earthquake survivors: ‘Worse than the bombardment in Syria’
1 year, 10 months ago

Earthquake survivors: ‘Worse than the bombardment in Syria’

Al Jazeera  

Two days after a series of earthquakes hit southern Turkey, relief efforts are yet to reach some areas of the country. Al Jazeera spoke to two Syrian refugee women, who live in the town of Reyhanli in Hatay province, near the border with Syria. Um Hadi, mother of four When the first earthquake hit, we were visiting Um Khalid. I …

Infrastructure to blame for high Syria earthquake death toll
1 year, 10 months ago

Infrastructure to blame for high Syria earthquake death toll

Al Jazeera  

Jinderes, Syria – More than 50 hours since two devastating earthquakes struck northwestern Syria and southern Turkey, civil defence members and rescue teams are still working around the clock in an attempt to rescue people still stuck under the collapsed buildings. “The first reason for the quick collapse of the buildings in the Idlib and Aleppo countrysides is the violent …

11,000 dead as Turkey, Syria earthquake search continues
1 year, 10 months ago

11,000 dead as Turkey, Syria earthquake search continues

Al Jazeera  

The death toll has surpassed 11,200 people and could yet increase dramatically if the worst fears of experts are realised. Rescuers raced to pull survivors from earthquake rubble as the death toll surpassed 9,000 in southern Turkey and war-ravaged northern Syria on Wednesday. The hope of rescuing more people from under the rubble is now fading, as time passes since …

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Apple, Google announce relief and recovery support
1 year, 10 months ago

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Apple, Google announce relief and recovery support

Live Mint  

A massive natural disaster hit Turkey and Syria on Monday with an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 killing thousands. Sharing their condolences on microblogging site Twitter, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai have announced to donate towards relief and recovery efforts in the region. In a tweet, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote: “Thinking of everyone in Türkiye and …

Earthquake aid will reach all its population, says war-torn Syria
1 year, 10 months ago

Earthquake aid will reach all its population, says war-torn Syria

Firstpost  

The 7.8-magnitude quake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing thousands of people United Nations, United States: War-torn Syria said Monday that aid sent after the earthquake will reach all its population, even though Damascus does not control all of its territories. Asked if aid donated to Syria – some areas are held by rebels – would reach all of …

Concerns over UN aid delivery amid fears Syria crossing may close
2 years, 5 months ago

Concerns over UN aid delivery amid fears Syria crossing may close

Al Jazeera  

Lack of agreement regarding humanitarian aid deliveries is likely to affect more than four million citizens in northwest Syria. Residents of Syria’s rebel-held northwest may lose access to critical aid within weeks if the United Nations Security Council does not extend the authorisation for cross-border deliveries, which expires on Sunday, officials said. Without an agreement, the aid deliveries stopped two …

‘Life and death’: Will Syria’s last UN aid delivery point close?
3 years, 6 months ago

‘Life and death’: Will Syria’s last UN aid delivery point close?

Al Jazeera  

NGOs fear medical shortages and hunger for millions in Idlib province if the UN does not re-authorise the Bab al-Hawa border crossing. “We’re short on medicine and surgical equipment but when we get it, it’s delivered through Bab al-Hawa.” Four humanitarian border-crossings into war-torn Syria were set up by the Security Council in July 2014 but in subsequent renewals of …

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