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Volunteering with the Syria Civil Defence in the aftermath of an earthquake, Jandaris, Syria, February 2023. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters

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The pair of massive earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria in early February killed tens of thousands and displaced many more. They have also aggravated a humanitarian catastrophe in northwest Syria in ways that could end up fundamentally reorienting the balance of power in Syria’s long-running conflict. Assad’s regime has long sought to punish civilian populations as a means of advancing its war effort—a strategy now greatly helped by the earthquakes. Without a massive recovery effort, the extensive damage in Syria’s opposition-held northwest could not only leave the people there unable to rebuild their lives but also tilt the balance of the conflict in Assad’s favor.…  Seguir leyendo »

Muhammad Al Halbouni, de 31 años, perdió una pierna en un bombardeo hace años. En el terremoto a principios de febrero perdió a sus dos hijas. Diego Ibarra Sanchez para The New York Times

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Ella no recuerda el terremoto que le partió la espalda y se tragó a sus hijas. Khaira al Halbouni solo sabe lo que le contó su marido después. En la mitad de la noche, el edificio tembló. Él agarró a una de sus hijas, Bisan, y a su hijo, Alí. Carga a Mayas —su hija menor— y corre, gritó.

Ella se llevó instintivamente la mano al velo. Después, nada.

Lo primero que Khaira recuerda es despertar sobre un montón de escombros. Vio un pequeño rayo de luz, y después un par de botas. Gritó. Miró alrededor, buscando a su hija. Habían pasado casi 30 horas.…  Seguir leyendo »

A partially collapsed house in the Syrian town of Azaz close to the border with Turkey, following the earthquakes in February 2023. Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images.

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Despite sharing a catastrophe, the earthquake aftermath and response in Syria and Turkey could not be further apart.

Turkey has received an outpouring of support and aid from dozens of countries and tens of thousands of search-and-rescue personnel, including international teams, have been deployed to Turkey’s east.

In contrast, only five per cent of the impacted sites and towns in northwest Syria are being covered by the overstretched Syria Civil Defence – known as the White Helmets – search-and-rescue operations, according to the United Nations (UN).

The level of relief aid which has entered northwest Syria has also been limited so far, with bureaucracy, manipulation of aid, and a lack of political will among the main factors hindering efforts to help the most impacted region in Syria.…  Seguir leyendo »

InternacionalONUMundoOriente Próximo,

t’s been an entire week since the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria — seven days of horror and heartache on a scale we did not experience even in the darkest hours of the Syrian conflict.

Our team of White Helmets volunteer rescue workers in northwest Syria have been working around the clock night and day, pulling survivors from the rubble and searching for signs of life — with virtually no help from the outside world.

Our hope of finding survivors has faded. As we pull more dead bodies from the rubble, my heart breaks for every soul that could have been saved and was needlessly lost because we did not get the help we needed in time.…  Seguir leyendo »

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El enorme terremoto que sacudió el este de Turquía y el noroeste de Siria en la madrugada del lunes 6 ha provocado conmoción y horror tanto en la región como en Europa. A estas alturas, ya roza los 42.000 fallecidos y hay miles de edificios arrasados en los dos países, muchos de los cuales no cumplían las normas sísmicas, sobre todo en el lado sirio, destrozado por una década de guerra y abandono de los poderes civiles. Los gobiernos europeos se han movilizado para enviar equipos y material de rescate, pero la situación geopolítica de la región afectada ha supuesto un grave problema.…  Seguir leyendo »

The rescue effort among damaged buildings following the earthquake in the city of Jenderes, Syria, on February 12, 2023. Photo by Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

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The earthquakes that have devastated northwest Syria are highly unlikely to reinvigorate the stalled Syrian peace process. Rather, they have already amplified existing political fault lines.

The natural disaster has highlighted deepening divides between the Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad and its allies on one side and the Syrian opposition and its international backers on the other side, as well as the impotence of the UN.

Damascus is trying to use the humanitarian catastrophe to get out of international isolation. Shortly after the earthquakes, the regime’s public reaction was not to express condolences for all Syrian people affected by the tragedy but to use its key figures to try to achieve de facto legitimacy on the international stage for Assad.…  Seguir leyendo »

A doctor and family rush to safety in their pajamas on the snowy streets

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Almost eight hours after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria early Monday, Dr. Abdurrahman Alomar and his family were bracing against the next onslaught.

With few safe places to go, the Syrian doctor, along his wife and two children, were taking refuge in his car, parked in an open area away from buildings.

Still, the ground continued to shake.

“I’m sorry, as I’m talking to you, a new aftershock is happening”, Alomar told CNN Opinion by phone from his car in the Turkish city of Gaziantep near the epicenter of the quake.

In the background, sirens wailed. And Alomar calmly described how hours earlier he had been woken by one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the region in more than a century.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Los terremotos que arrasaron el sur de Turquía y el norte de Siria la madrugada del 6 de febrero podrían dejar más de 20.000 víctimas mortales, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS). Continúa la carrera contra reloj para encontrar a quienes puedan seguir con vida bajo los escombros, pero esos esfuerzos se ven entorpecidos por las condiciones climáticas: fuertes vientos que complican las labores de rescate y temperaturas gélidas que reducen las posibilidades de supervivencia de las víctimas. Además, las numerosas réplicas y la amenaza de nuevos derrumbes impiden que los damnificados regresen a sus hogares.

El presidente turco, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ha declarado un estado de emergencia de tres meses en las diez provincias más afectadas y ha movilizado a decenas de miles de miembros del personal de rescate, y la comunidad internacional se está volcando en muestras de solidaridad hacia Turquía.…  Seguir leyendo »

An aerial view shows the destroyed buildings in the rebel-held town of Jindayris, Syria, on Thursday, three days after a deadly earthquake. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images)

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Following the devastating series of earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, the Syrian regime has re-energized its calls for lifting sanctions leveled against it. Syrian government spokeswoman Bouthaina Shaaban told Sky News that if the United States and the European Union lift sanctions, then “the Syrian people will be able to take care of their country”. A number of well-meaning civil society and religious groups have also made similar pleas.

The U.S. State Department has thus far rightly dismissed such calls. But as the full scope of the destruction and human suffering comes into focus, expect these calls to intensify.…  Seguir leyendo »

El terremoto del lunes devastó la ciudad de Nurdagi en el sur de Turquía. Khalil Hamra/Associated Press

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Cada vida tiene una serie de fechas indelebles: el nacimiento de un hijo, la muerte de un padre, una tragedia nacional como la del 11 de septiembre.

Una fecha imposible de olvidar en mi caso es el 19 de septiembre de 1985.

Entonces era un niño de 11 años que vivía en Ciudad de México, y unos minutos después de las 7:00 a. m. iba de camino a la escuela. De pronto, la calle empezó a sacudirse; el auto se balanceaba de un lado al otro de la calle. Se sentía como si estuviéramos volando. Esto duró casi tres minutos.

En la escuela circulaba el rumor de que el centro de la ciudad había quedado destruido.…  Seguir leyendo »