Days after devastating earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, only a handful of international aid organizations have been allowed into Syria, and most entry points remain closed.
"We are grateful to the Government of Türkiye for re-opening the border so aid can flow into northwest Syria, and we welcome news today of the first UN aid convoy arriving via the Bab al-Hawa crossing," the White House said Thursday.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Thursday that there are several reasons why providing aid to Turkey and Syria is an"exceedingly challenging situation" due to the strength and magnitude of the earthquakes. Russia has said it plans to send assistance directly to its close ally Syria amid western-led international isolation due to the war in Ukraine.
"The devastating earthquake compounds the crises that Syrians already endure," Syrian Dr. Houssam al-Nahhas, who is a Middle East and North Africa researcher at Physicians for Human Rights, said in a statement. "The United Nations utilized the humanitarian border crossing for the first time since the earthquake on Thursday," Barnes said."However, organizations like Mercy Corps that already have operations and pre-positioned supplies in Northwest Syria were able to begin providing aid prior to that.
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