World fails to provide enough aid to Syria – UN official
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A UN official said on Monday that the world had failed to provide enough aid to Syria, although Syrians are “looking for international support that has not arrived so far.
The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Martin Griffiths, who made the comments during a visit to the devastated northern Syrian city of Aleppo, said, “We have so far failed the people in northwest Syria.”
The Syrians literally “feel abandoned,” Griffiths added.
“Our obligation is to correct this failure as fast as we can,” according to the official.
In addition, he pointed out that the rescue phase is coming to a close.
He stressed that now it is time to provide affected people with humanitarian aid, saying “Now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling, and a sense of the future for these people, that’s our obligation now.”
At dawn on Feb. 6, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Turkey, killing thousands and injuring much more. The earthquake also caused immense destruction of buildings, trapping thousands under the rubble.
At least 1.414 deaths and 2.349 injuries have been confirmed in government-held areas, while 2.167 deaths and 2.950 injuries in northwest Syria, as for AANES six deaths and 57 injuries were confirmed, according to statistics released by the authorities in the three regions.