UAE aid ship arrives in Syria’s Latakia for quake-affected people
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, a ship carrying more than 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid arrived in Latakia, on Syria’s coast, coming from the Red Crescent Society of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The aid includes food parcels, relief aid, medical aid, clothes, blankets, tents, constructing equipment, and other things.
The delegation’s head of the Red Crescent Society of the UAE, Muhammad al-Kaabi, said that the shipment was sent by the Emirates Red Crescent, according to the official Syrian news agency SANA.
The shipment, which is the second of its kind, is a continuation of the aid that the country has been providing since the disaster of Feb. 6 earthquake that struck Syria, in order to support the Syrian people, according to al-Kaabi.
On Feb. 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and Syria, killing hundreds in both countries and causing wide destruction and displacement of thousands of people.
Earlier on the day, Governor of Latakia Amer Hilal, discussed with Chargé d’Affaires of the UAE Embassy in Damascus, Abdulhakim al-Nuaimi, aspects of support provided in relief fields.
Both parties discussed the stage to which they arrived in implementing alternative housing for the people who were affected by the quake and the processes of preparing infrastructure for the sites of the housing in the governorate, according to the source.