‘Please, tell the world about me’
Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar said from Kahramanmaras, near a quake-hit building whose ruins have become “a complete graveyard”.
“An elderly woman told me this morning, ‘Please, make my voice heard,’ because her son, daughter in law and her grandchild were still under this collapsed building,” Serdar said.
“But unfortunately a little while ago, the end was heartbreaking because the rescue team took the dead bodies of her family out – and her screaming was terrifying,” he added.
“This is the story of the families here; there are several other families that are anxiously waiting, still having hope they might hear a voice of their loved ones. They have been waiting here for more than 80 hours; despite the extremely cold weather, they are not willing to leave without getting their relatives out from under the rubble – dead or alive.
THE AMERICAN UN SENDS 6 TRUCKS OF AID TILL DATE..WHAT A SHAME
Six trucks with aid supplies from the United Nations have crossed into northwest Syria, the first such delivery, but human rights groups sharply criticised their timing and content.
“Shame on the United Nations for sending six trucks with aid which were already coming into northwest Syria before the earthquake took place,” said Rami Abdul Rahman, who has been monitoring violence inside war-torn Syria since 2011 and is the founder of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“This is a mockery. The trucks had very, very few things,” he said, adding the cargo could have “fit in one truck”.
Rahman’s group first thought the trucks were to carry mainly blankets and other aid. But when an observatory worker actually looked at the cargo and discovered the supplies included detergent and other items not suitable for earthquake victims, they were outraged.
