The UN has delivered more than 550 trucks of humanitarian aid to northwest Syria since the earthquakes

MADRID, 4 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The United Nations has delivered a total of 557 trucks of humanitarian aid to northwest Syria since the earthquakes that struck the Turkish-Syrian border on February 6.

This was reported this Friday at a press conference by the deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq, after 22 trucks from the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF have crossed into northwestern Syria in recent hours. .

"The United Nations has carried out 18 inter-agency cross-border missions in northwestern Syria since the first inter-agency visit to Idlib on February 14," said the spokesman for the UN Secretary General.

In addition, on Thursday, a joint delegation from UNICEF and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) carried out a mission focused on gender and accountability to affected people, which included a field visit to a site for internally displaced people at Kelly Mountain and Al Iman hospital in Sarmada, in northern Idlib.

"The UN is currently supporting the assessment of the structural damage of the affected buildings to facilitate the return of families. Long-term shelter operations are also being identified for families unable to return to their homes due to the magnitude of the damage", stressed Haq in turn.

In this sense, he recalled that, according to data from humanitarian organizations on the ground, more than 105,000 households have been displaced after the earthquakes and many are staying with host communities or returning to their habitable homes, which makes very difficult to calculate the actual number of displaced persons.

For this reason, the United Nations has appealed to the international community to reach 400 million dollars (375 million euros) in an effort to get assistance to those affected in Syria. So far, 173 million dollars (166 million euros) have been raised, that is, 45.5 percent of the necessary financing.