Beirut (EFE).- Save the Children warned that those affected by the earthquakes in Syria face difficulties in accessing food due to shortages and an increase in costs in the areas hit by the tragedy, one month after the first seism.
“They have problems accessing food due to shortages in the market and increases in the price of products that are in high demand. In some districts of northern Syria that were strongly impacted (…) the markets presented limited or no availability of basic food products,” the NGO warned in a statement.
Among the places that register shortages are Harem, in the northwestern province of Idlib, or Jindires and Sheikh al Hadid, in the neighboring administrative demarcation of Aleppo and among the hardest hit by the catastrophe on February 6, according to the note.
The director of Advocacy at Save the Children Syria, Kathryin Achilles, recalled that the earthquakes hit areas of the Arab country where the population had previously faced “enormous challenges” due to the economic crisis and the prolonged armed conflict that broke out almost twelve years ago.
“Most of the families that were hit the hardest have already been forced to leave their homes multiple times and have suffered difficult living conditions. There is no time to waste, it is vital that we help Syrian families rebuild their lives now,” Achilles called.
The earthquake a month ago, with its epicenter in neighboring Turkey, and the aftershocks that followed caused great devastation in areas of Idlib and Aleppo, in the hands of the opposition, and also in others controlled by the government of Syrian President Bashar. al Asad, in those and other provinces.
Four weeks later, thousands of families are still living in temporary shelters in both Syria and Turkey, Save the Children said.
