Focus of aid effort shifts to helping people without shelter as earthquake death toll rises to more than 37,000
“People are suffering a lot. We applied to receive tent, aid or something but until now we didn’t receive anything,” said Hassan Saimoua, a refugee staying with his family in a playground in Turkey’s southeastern city of Gaziantep.Mr Saimoua and other Syrians who had found refuge in Gaziantep from the war at home but were made homeless by the earthquake used plastic sheets, blankets and cardboard to erect makeshift tents in the playground.
Syrians protest against lack of international aid while a man sits on the rubble of his home in the town of al-Atarib, Aleppo province, Syria. Photograph: Emily Garthwaite/The New York Times In Aleppo as well, a former frontline in Syria’s war, families who had to leave their homes are now dealing with the psychological aftermath of the quake.
This comes after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad agreed on Monday to allow UN aid to enter from Turkey via two more border crossings, marking a shift for Damascus which has long opposed cross-border aid deliveries to the rebel enclave. Russia also said it was wrapping up its search and rescue work in Turkey and Syria and preparing to withdraw from the disaster zone.
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