Turkey – Syria earthquake | Syrian opposition areas have received no help, say border officials | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Bashar al-Assad | | WORLD

The authorities responsible for the Bab al Hawa border crossing, which links the Syrian province of Idlib with Turkey and the only route of entrance of supplies to the opposition areas of the northwest of Syriathey assured today that he has not entered humanitarian aid to the region since the earthquake last Monday.

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“On the third day since the destructive earthquake that struck areas of southern Turkey and northern Syria, from the direction of the Bab al Hawa border crossing we affirm that as of the date of this publication it has not reached the liberated areas of northwestern Turkey. Syria no help from any entity”they alerted in a statement.

The note specifies that no truck or "from the ONU" nor from any other organization, and affirmed that the personnel at the crossing are "totally willing" to facilitate the passage of convoys, volunteer personnel or machinery to help in the removal of rubble.

Bab al Hawa is the only point through which supplies enter the opposition-held areas of Idlib and the neighboring region of Aleppo, with the exception of some occasional shipments that the UN has made in recent months from government-controlled areas. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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The UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric affirmed yesterday at a press conference that they are preparing a convoy with humanitarian aid for these opposition areas and that it is expected that they will be sent from inside Syria, passing through the fronts controlled by other actors.

According to Dujarric, the roads that go to Bab al Hawa have been damaged by the earthquakes, making it difficult to use the crossing, although he stated that the border crossing itself is "intact", contrary to previous versions offered by Syrian and international sources.

More than 4 million people reside in the opposition areas of Idlib and Aleppo, most of whom already required humanitarian aid before the earthquakes and three million of whom are internally displaced, many of them women and children.

In them, more than 1,400 dead and 2,700 injured by the tragedy have already been recorded, while the total balance in Syria amounts to more than 2,600 deaths and almost 5,000 injured, counting the areas in the hands of Damascus, which do have several airports and crossings. operational border crossings with Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.