Syrian govt approves humanitarian aid delivery across frontlines
Aid distribution will take place in cooperation with the United Nations , the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, to “guarantee the arrival of this aid to those who need it”, state media said on Friday.especially into the country’s north-west – where it estimated more than four million people already required aid before the quake – via frozen front lines and through crossings with Turkey.
More than 3,200 people have died in Syria from the earthquake, with many more injured and hundreds of thousands displaced.Dozens of plane-loads of aid have arrived in areas held by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government since Monday but little has reached the north-west, leading many residents to say they feel left alone.
State media reported that the government had also declared areas worst affected by the quake – Lattakia, Hama, Aleppo and Idlib – disaster zones, and would set up a rehabilitation fund. REUTERS Volunteers prepare graves for the earthquake dead, in the rebel-held town of Jandaris, Syria. REUTERS
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