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Qatar Charity's field teams began distributing urgent relief aid to those affected by the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, in conjunction with its launch of an urgent relief campaign entitled "Relief the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria."

In response to the urgent humanitarian needs, thousands of hot meals have been distributed directly to those affected by the earthquake equally between the Syrian interior and Turkey.

Saud Al-Maadeed, Director of Media Department at Qatar Charity, said that a convoy of 4 trucks set out from Doha, including medical supplies, first aid, clothes, dates and foodstuffs.

At the same time, preparations are under way to implement 30 relief convoys that include food and non-food items for more than 5 million Qatari riyals (about one and a half million dollars), so that the total aid in the first phase will be more than 6 million riyals.

The field teams of "Qatar Charity" distributed about 45,000 meals to the affected people inside Syria and Turkey (communication sites)

Help those affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Al-Maadeed confirmed - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - that work is currently underway to prepare a plan worth 21 million riyals ($5.77 million), an urgent response worth 7.3 million riyals ($2 million), and early recovery and reconstruction projects worth 14.6 million riyals ($4 million). dollar).

Al-Maadeed explained that Qatar Charity continues to provide its assistance in the various affected areas, and to provide urgent humanitarian needs for those affected, which include food and non-food items, personal hygiene items and other needs.

Al-Maadeed pointed out that the field teams are continuing to distribute about 45,000 hot food meals to the affected people between the Syrian interior and Turkey, in addition to distributing 6,500 parcels containing ready-to-eat foodstuffs in each of Azaz and Afrin in northern Syria, and distributing 1,600 food baskets consisting of food supplies. The basic food is enough for a family for a full month in Gaziantep and Urfa, Turkey.


The first rain

For his part, Omar Abu Yahya - a worker in the "Idlibion" volunteer team - confirmed that the aid began to enter well during the past hours into northwestern Syria.

He added to Al-Jazeera Net that "the scale of the disaster requires urgent aid in large quantities, because thousands of people live in the open and in shelter camps."

In turn, the Qatar Red Crescent launched the entry of urgent relief aid into northern Syria with 5 trucks loaded with 35 tons of urgent materials, funded by the Qatar Fund for Development, which was transported through the Qatari Emiri Air Force.

The people of Deir Ezzor sent relief convoys to help their afflicted brothers (communication sites)

Aid from Deir Ezzor

In a related context, the first aid convoys, provided by the people of the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, were launched to help those affected by earthquakes in the regions of northern Syria.

Activists launched a campaign to collect donations and send them through convoys to the affected areas of northern Syria.

The first convoys set off today, Friday, from the town of Gharanij in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and the cities of Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad in northeastern Syria witnessed the departure of dozens of cars loaded with aid and foodstuffs, which entered from the crossings of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ain towards the regions of northern Syria.

Media activist Abdullah Muhammad confirmed that "the people continue campaigns to collect all that can be provided in kind and material aid and send it to cities and towns affected by earthquakes in the regions of northern Syria, in the absence of any international aid provided to alleviate the tragedy of the Syrian people."

In an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Abdullah pointed out that the popular relief campaigns will continue in the coming days and will be sent to northern Syria, successively, in order to help the largest number of afflicted people.

It is worth noting that the civil defense team in northwestern Syria confirmed that the death toll from the earthquake rose to at least 2030.