United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths acknowledges the delayed international reaction to earthquake victims in northwest Syria: ‘They rightly feel abandoned’
In northwest Syria, as rescuers continue to recover bodies from the rubble left by last week’s devastating earthquake, Ismail Alabdullah finds himself unable to get an image out of his mind: the sight of women, dead in the wreckage, with their arms wrapped around the bodies of small children they were unable to protect.
Many people in the region have been displaced multiple times, and have long felt abandoned by the international community. The earthquake has made getting aid to them even more difficult. Mr. Griffiths later tweeted that trucks with UN relief were entering northwest Syria, saying he was encouraged by the scale-up of convoys from a UN centre at the Turkey border. “We need to open more access points and get more aid out fast,” he added.
even before the earthquake 12 million people did not have enough food. He said the economic challenges are not only related to international sanctions, which have targeted Mr. al-Assad’s regime. But those sanctions have made aid work more difficult.
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