Turkish President Erdogan traveled to his country’s earthquake-shattered south on Wednesday as the death toll from a pair of major earthquakes passed 12,000 and rescue workers in neighboring Syria said that they had found colleagues among the dead.
one of its employees was found dead under the rubble of his home in Idlib province. “We are very shocked and saddened by the impact of this disaster on the thousands of people touched by it, including our colleagues and their families,” Sebastien Gay, head of the Doctors Without Borders mission in Syria, said in a statement.
Syria tried to do the same on Wednesday, but it was unclear to what effect. President Bashar al-Assad’s government has been a pariah among many Western governments, which have accused him of crimes against humanity for bombarding densely populated civilian areas, including the medical facilities that serve them, throughout the war.In the rebel-held pocket in the northwest, no aid has crossed the border since the earthquakes. The U.N.
The United Nation said just 5 percent of quake-affected sites in rebel-held Syria were being covered by search-and-rescue operations.Yet the needs are overwhelming on both sides of the conflict line. “There’s so much long-term change to people’s health,” she said. “We saw a baby that was born under the rubble yesterday. Babies will be born in the next few days to people sheltering in cars.” Harris said early assessments showed damage to at least 15 hospitals and hundreds of health facilities across the two countries.
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