She confirmed that Saudi Arabia has contributed significantly to helping those affected in Syria and Turkey
Today, Saturday, the United Nations confirmed that the humanitarian supplies provided to the Syrians are related to the war, not the earthquake that hit the country last week, leaving thousands dead and wounded.
As the United Nations Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syrian Crisis, Muhannad Hadi, told Al-Arabiya, “We succeeded in entering northern Syria by opening crossings that were closed.”
“Politics is not important in Syria now, and the most important thing is to help children and women,” he said, noting that Saudi Arabia has greatly contributed to helping those affected in Syria and Turkey.
In addition, Hadi called for securing clean drinking water for those affected in northern Syria after monitoring cases of cholera due to mixing drinking water with sewage water, adding, “Hundreds of families are now homeless in these areas.”
Twelve days after the earthquake that killed more than 46,000 people in Turkey and Syria, the situation in northwest Syria – where the opposition controls – remains particularly difficult, due to the slow arrival of aid to this region exhausted by years of war.
Before the earthquake, almost all necessary humanitarian aid for the more than four million people living in this part of the country passed through a single crossing, Bab al-Hawa, through which operations were temporarily halted due to earthquake damage.
It took four days for aid to re-enter through this border crossing, and earlier this week Damascus agreed to open two more border crossings for the United Nations to enter more aid.