People walk past collapsed buildings in the town of Jinderis, in
Syria's Aleppo province, days after the earthquake. Ghaith Alsayed/AP
In Turkey, thousands of tons of aid have poured in from countries worldwide, while across the border in Syria, there are no crews of rescuers, no trucks loaded with support, and ambulances saving the wounded reports NPR.
The border crossing into Syria was empty and silent.
- Bringing aid across the border from Turkey violates Syria's sovereignty, according to the Syrian regime.
- According to a local council member, the world left the people of Syria to face the "criminal" Bashar al-Assad.
- Many
residents had fled to northern Syria from other parts of the country,
searching for safety from the Syrian regime and its ally, Russia.
- Per the United Nations, 4.1 million people in the country needed humanitarian aid even before the devastating earthquake.
