Turkey – Syria earthquake | Arab countries continue to send planes with aid to Syria | Bashar al-Assad | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | WORLD

Various countries in the Arab world continue to send planes with humanitarian aid to the Government of syrian president, Bashar al-Assadwhich has called for the lifting of international sanctions against them to expedite the arrival of supplies to their areas.

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According to the official Syrian news agency SANA, since late last Monday, aircraft from Algeria, Egypt, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Libya, Iraq and Iranin addition to assistance sent from outside the region by Russiaone of the main allies of Al Asad, and the India.

With the exception of Libya, all the Arab governments have already sent more than one plane with food and supplies, while in the case of Algeria and Egypt three planes have already landed at different airports controlled by the authorities of Damascus.

Neighboring Lebanon also has dozens of troops on the ground helping in the rescue efforts, as confirmed on their Twitter accounts by the Army of the cedar nation and the Lebanese Red Cross, some of whom are participating in the operations. In Syria.

Al Asad has received promises of help and calls for solidarity from the leaders of these and other countries, some of which had not maintained diplomatic contacts with Damascus since their brutal repression of the popular revolts that broke out in the country in March 2011.

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A series of international sanctions, especially by the United States, also weigh on the circle close to Al-Asad and other Syrian bodies, measures that the Foreign Minister, Faisal al-Miqdad, called yesterday to lift to increase the arrival of humanitarian assistance .

In an interview with the Lebanese channel Al Mayadin, which is echoed today by SANA, the head of Syrian diplomacy denounced that the sanctions “exacerbated the disaster”despite the fact that under international law these punishments do not apply to aid, according to the official news agency.

For its part, the Syrian government itself has approved an item equivalent to some 7.5 million dollars to finance rescue efforts in their areas, according to SANA.

The earthquakes have also affected opposition areas in the northwest of the country, where search operations and aid distribution are entirely independent of the Syrian government, which is not expected to share supplies donated by the international community with them.

So far, there have been more than 2,000 deaths and 4,000 wounded throughout the Syrian territory.