{"id":30372,"date":"2023-02-15T03:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30372"},"modified":"2023-02-15T03:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:21:43","slug":"first-un-aid-convoy-enters-quake-hit-syria-via-new-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30372","title":{"rendered":"First UN aid convoy enters quake-hit Syria via new crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The first UN aid convoy has entered through a reopened border crossing into rebel-held north-western Syria, devastated by last week&#8217;s earthquake.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN said 11 lorries crossed from Turkey at Bab al-Salameh on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Syrians are angry over the lack of aid for the war-torn nation especially to rebel areas, after last week&#8217;s quakes in which more than 41,000 are known to have died in Turkey and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN and Syria&#8217;s government on Monday agreed to use two more crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other one is at al-Rai, also on the Turkish border. The UN said the crossings would initially be open for three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two powerful earthquakes struck the south-eastern regions of neighbouring Turkey on 6 February early in the morning, when many people were asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopes of finding any more survivors are fading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-64600913\">Crisis upon crisis: Why it&#8217;s hard to get help to Syria<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-64643790\">Satellite images show devastation in Syria town<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Countries with friendly relations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including Russia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, began flying supplies to government-controlled areas of Syria soon after the tremor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the opposition-controlled north-west &#8211; where some 4.1 million people were relying on humanitarian assistance to survive even before the disaster &#8211; received no aid deliveries from the UN via Turkey until Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: The first UN aid convoy has entered through a reopened border crossing into rebel-held north-western Syria, devastated by last week&#8217;s earthquake. The UN said 11 lorries crossed from Turkey at Bab al-Salameh on Tuesday. Many Syrians are angry over the lack of aid for the war-torn nation especially to rebel areas, after last week&#8217;s quakes in which more than 41,000 are known to have died in Turkey and Syria. The UN and Syria&#8217;s government on Monday agreed to use two more crossings. The other one is at al-Rai, also on the Turkish border. The UN said the crossings&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30374,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30372\/revisions\/30374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}