The first UN delegation to visit rebel-held northwestern Syria since last week's earthquake crossed over from Turkey Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, as anger simmers at the world body's slow response.
Vehicles carrying the first UN delegation to visit rebel-held northwestern Syria arrive through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey on February 14, 2023. Omar Haj Kadour/ AFPThe first UN delegation to visit rebel-held northwestern Syria since last week's earthquake crossed over from Turkey Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, as anger simmers at the world body's slow response.
"A multi-agency mission has gone this morning from the Turkey side across the border crossing... It's largely an assessment mission," the World Food Programme's Syria director, Kenn Crossley, told AFP in Geneva. Activists and emergency teams in the northwest have decried the UN's slow response to the quake in rebel-held areas, contrasting it with the planeloads of humanitarian aid that have been delivered to government-controlled airports.
"I think we also know that it is not enough," she said, adding that the UN was doing its best to provide aid to the northwest.
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