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(09-02-2023, 08:23 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]News that the first UN aid convoy has crossed the border from Turkey into north-west Syria is promising, but far more will be needed in a region that was in dire humanitarian need before Monday’s earthquake struck.
While up to two more crossings may open if security stays good, the UN has described the Bab al-Hawa border crossing as a lifeline for accessing the rebel-held area of Syria, where an estimated 4 million people, many fleeing the country’s 11-year civil war, were already relying on aid to survive.
“We need lifesaving aid,” the UN’s special envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, said. “It’s desperately needed by civilians wherever they are, irrespective of borders and boundaries. We need it urgently through the fastest, most direct and most effective routes. They need more of absolutely everything.”
The UN are not delivering the aid that we are in most need of to help us save lives, with time running out,” Raed al Saleh, who leads the main volunteer rescue group known as the White Helmets, told Reuters.
NGOs and rescue workers have said the rescue operation is relying on simple tools like pickaxes and shovels and old cranes in urban areas where whole neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble.
A total of 3,162 have been reported dead by Syrian government officials and a rescue group in the rebel-held north-west of the country.
The first aid convoy to reach northwestern Syria since Monday’s devastating earthquake has crossed the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey, with six trucks carrying tents and hygiene products.
The United Nation’s special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, has said the country, already ravaged by more than a decade of civil war, needs “more of absolutely everything” amid a humanitarian crisis that was already worsening before the quake, adding that emergency aid “must not be politicised”.
77 hours after the first quake, but hopes of finding more survivors in temperatures as low as -5C are fading.
Experts say the survival rate of people trapped in rubble is 74% within 24 hours but falls to 22% after 72 hours and 6% by the fifth day...
10-02-2023, 10:17 AM
(09-02-2023, 08:40 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]A total of 3,162 have been reported dead by Syrian government officials and a rescue group in the rebel-held north-west of the country.
The first aid convoy to reach northwestern Syria since Monday’s devastating earthquake has crossed the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey, with six trucks carrying tents and hygiene products.
The United Nation’s special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, has said the country, already ravaged by more than a decade of civil war, needs “more of absolutely everything” amid a humanitarian crisis that was already worsening before the quake, adding that emergency aid “must not be politicised”.
77 hours after the first quake, but hopes of finding more survivors in temperatures as low as -5C are fading.
Experts say the survival rate of people trapped in rubble is 74% within 24 hours but falls to 22% after 72 hours and 6% by the fifth day...
More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in Monday's earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, though the UN warns the disaster's full extent is still unclear.
Rescuers are still searching rubble for survivors, but hopes are fading almost 100 hours since the tremors struck.
Freezing conditions threaten the lives of thousands of survivors who are now without shelter, water and food.
UN chief Antonio Guterres warned the full extent of the catastrophe was still "unfolding before our eyes", especially in Syria where a long-running civil war has devastated the country.
On Thursday, the first UN humanitarian aid crossed the border into north-western Syria through Idlib's Bab al-Hawa crossing..
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(09-02-2023, 07:40 PM)Sentinel Wrote: [ -> ]Why ah? Is it Syrian lives mean nothing and dirt cheap to PAP, just like how Sinkies are treated?
Maybe politics issues lah!
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(10-02-2023, 11:54 AM)Napoleon Porlumpar Wrote: [ -> ]Syria is aligned with Russia and her allies mah....................S'pore is a junior puppet state of senior puppet state, USA..............
You have hit the nail on the head...............