AMMAN — Upon Royal directives, the
Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) has dispatched a 14-truck relief
convoy to Syria to deliver aid to families who survived the earthquakes that
hit Syria and Turkey last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
said on Monday.
اضافة اعلان
The 14 semitrucks were loaded with
medicines, foodstuffs, blankets, and drinking water, and were delivered to the
affected areas in Syria through the reciprocal transport system at the
Jordanian-Syrian border center, ministry spokesperson Sinan Majali said in a
statement carried by the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
The High Relief Committee in Syria received
seven trucks, and UN agencies operating in the country received the other seven
trucks, to distribute relief items to survivors in the affected areas, Majali
said.
Staggering figuresNearly 11 million people inside Syria have
been affected by the earthquake, according to the UN. Four million of those
people rely on aid agencies for basic humanitarian needs like clean water and
food.
“This is a big catastrophe,” El-Mostafa
Benlamlih, the UN’s resident coordinator for Syria, had said in a video
briefing with reporters last Wednesday. “We are struggling; our humanitarian work is affected.”
At the time, Benlamlih had said that 30,000
people were taking shelter in schools and mosques in Aleppo alone, and about
70,000 were on the streets.
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