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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Seventy countries and 14 international organizations offered assistance to Turkey after the earthquake, including the United States (US), the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and Russia. However, the international aid situation in Syria is less clear.

City of CNN International, Thursday (02/09/2023), Syria is governed by a myriad of different groups. Some of Syria’s worst-hit areas are controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s government, others by Turkish and US-backed opposition forces, Kurdish rebels and Sunni Islamist fighters.

Idlib, one of the last strongholds of the Syrian opposition, is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Islamist armed group.

Assad’s government, internationally sidelined and heavily sanctioned for its brutal suppression of an uprising that began in 2011, counts Iran and Russia as its closest allies.

The regime insists that all aid to the country, including aid intended for areas beyond its control, should be directed to the capital Damascus.

This has not been welcomed by activists and observers who fear the regime will hamper timely assistance to thousands of earthquake victims in rebel-held areas, which the United Nations says , are mainly women and children.

So far, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Egypt, Algeria and India have provided direct aid to airports controlled by the regime. Others, such as Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, China, Canada and the Vatican, have pledged aid, although it is unclear whether the aid will be sent directly to the plan.

On Wednesday, the Syrian government said it had set up more than 100 shelters equipped with relief supplies for quake-affected people in government-controlled areas.

The area includes the cities of Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Tartous and Latakia, a coastal city. which has the highest death toll from the earthquake in Syria to date, and more than 100 buildings have collapsed.

Previously, Syria had been accused of playing politics with post-earthquake humanitarian aid. This came after Syria’s ambassador to the UN, Bassam Sabbagh, said his country should take responsibility for sending all aid to Syria, including areas not under its control. of the country’s government.

Sabbagh told reporters in New York, United States (US) that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres assured his country that the agency would do everything possible to help Syria make faced with this very difficult situation.

Meanwhile, the death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria continues to rise. On Thursday (02/09/2023) in the morning, more than 12,000 people were confirmed dead.

According to official data from local government and medical teams, 9,057 people died in Turkey and at least 3,042 in Syria due to the M 7.8 earthquake that occurred last Monday. The total number of deaths has reached 12,099 and could potentially double according to experts.

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