The Syrian government will accept the delivery of international aid to the rebel-held areas affected by the earthquakes on Monday, according to a statement published by the official SANA news agency.
The government of President Bashar al-Assad has said that the distribution of humanitarian aid will be “supervised by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Red Crescent” with the help of the UN.
The decision was made public after Al-Assad visited a hospital on Friday in Aleppo (northwest), one of the regions most affected by the earthquakes, which killed 3,377 people in Syria, according to the most recent report.
A civil war has been going on in Syria since 2011. The earthquakes had their epicenter in neighboring Turkey, where the authorities already counted 17,674 dead.
Source: TSF
