The First UN team since the quake crosses into rebel-held Syria.
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| A Syrian boy, who lost his family as a result of the quake that hit Turkey and Syria, sits amid the rubble of his family home in the town of Jindayris, Aleppo. (File/AFP) |
The first UN delegation to visit rebel-held northwestern Syria since last week’s earthquake crossed over from Turkiye Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, as anger simmers at the world body’s slow response.
More than 35,000 people were killed when the quake devastated swathes of Syria and neighboring Turkiye on February 6, at least 3,600 of them in Syria, according to government officials and emergency services in rebel areas.
“A multi-agency mission has gone this morning from the Turkiye side across the border crossing... It’s largely an assessment mission,” the World Food Programme’s Syria director, Kenn Crossley, told AFP in Geneva.
The delegation comprised deputy regional humanitarian coordinator David Carden and Sanjana Quazi, who heads the
