Northern Syria -

Like dozens, the Syrian youth, Mahmoud Al-Yahya, rushed to participate in rescue operations after the civil defense (the White Helmets) were unable to deal with the catastrophe of the devastating earthquake alone.

Al-Yahya, 25, comes from the town of Hass in the southern countryside of Idlib, and is displaced in Al-Diyaa camps in the Sarmada region, near the border with Turkey.

Mahmoud asked the International Organization for Relief and Development (Ansr) to join its efforts to rescue the stranded, and upon his arrival in the Jenderes area, northwest of Aleppo, he and 7 of his companions began continuous work to extract the victims.

While working inside the ruins of a house, Al-Yahya was able to find a women's bag containing a quantity of gold and money, and he handed it over directly to the Civil Defense team.

Several civil initiatives to assist civil defense in facing the devastating earthquake disaster (Al Jazeera Net)

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Yahya said, "After the mechanisms finished excavating the destroyed houses, I went down into the rubble to search for distress sounds, and when I found the bag, I started screaming, perhaps voices would answer me, but to no avail."

And about the scenes that affected him the most, the young man, who almost fell from exhaustion, says, "I found a child's toy inside the rubble, apparently she was sleeping next to her owner, and I also found papers and pens for a high school student whose breathing stopped hours ago, and his books remained witness to what happened."

With the multiplicity of tasks of the civil defense team, it also receives the trusts from the rescue personnel, then registers the name of the family that owns the money and places them in special locations, to be handed over later to the families of the victims.

The city of Jenderes in the countryside of Aleppo is one of the towns most affected by the devastating earthquake, as the civil defense team was able to count about 250 destroyed homes in the town, which was inhabited by about 100,000 people.

Children's games witness the last moments of the victims of the devastating earthquake in Jenderes (Al-Jazeera Net)

Volunteers continue to search for survivors amid the absence of modern equipment in northern Syria (Al-Jazeera Net)