The European Commission will hold a donor conference on Monday to support the people affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Experts ask: How will the EU ensure that aid actually reaches Syria? DW's priyankashank17 reports from Brussels. ⬇️
Since then, nations around the world have been quick to express their solidarity and offer aid to support people in both countries.
But the region is controlled by groups that oppose Syria's government, and getting any aid to help people in this part of the country is a challenge with President Bashar Assad insisting that all humanitarian aid should be channeled through Damascus. Following the earthquake, this diplomatic feud over the cross-border aid deliveries came into play, delaying international support, Suhail al-Ghazi, an independent researcher on Syria, told DW.the Bab-al-Hawa crossing were damaged and it was difficult to reach northwest Syria immediately," al-Ghazi said."But the crossing never closed, and the Turkish government fixed the damaged roads quickly. Yet, aid didn't come through.
"We immediately mobilized some €10 million for humanitarian assistance to cover the most urgent needs. EU humanitarian assistance is always based on needs, not on political, religious or any other affiliations," the official told DW. "All this aid is great, but most of it came through flights landing in Damascus. Over 300 flights came from European countries to Damascus. But this was not needed because the vulnerable situation was in the northwest of the country. So flights could have landed in Turkey's Hatay province and reached the northwest faster. Going through Damascus has meant that more aid ended up in the hands of the Syrian regime," he said.
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