Northern Syria -

Hours after the statements of the Regional Director of the World Food Program in the Middle East and North Africa, Corinne Fleischer, regarding the provision of aid to those affected by the earthquake in northern Syria,

The Secretary-General of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Haitham Rahma, accused Fleischer of publishing false and misleading information about the United Nations response to the earthquake victims in Syria.

Rahma said - in a statement - that "Fleischer claimed to distribute aid in the liberated areas in northwestern Syria, while the scenes it showed were from the city of Aleppo, which is controlled by the Syrian regime."

Rahma added, "In addition to the clear failure of the United Nations to help the afflicted Syrians in the liberated areas, Fleischer behaves in an unprofessional manner, and provides misleading information on social media."

The Secretary-General of the Syrian National Coalition expressed his dissatisfaction with the United Nations and its organizations' handling of the disaster that befell Syria after the earthquake, stressing that it did not seek to provide the rescue teams in the liberated areas with any equipment or supplies that would help them evacuate and rescue the injured, in addition to its weak intervention after several days had passed. catastrophe ineffectively.

Rescuers search for survivors under the rubble in Syria (Reuters)

popular indignation

The statement of the Secretary of the Syrian Opposition Coalition coincided with a state of great popular discontent in northwestern Syria, and the people talking about a great disappointment from the world and international disregard for their tragedy, stressing that everyone who died under the rubble had a chance to live if heavy rescue equipment and trained international teams were available.

A number of the people of the stricken town of Jenderes - which has become a symbol of the tragedy of the earthquake in northwestern Syria - spoke to Al-Jazeera Net about the international community's abandonment of them, and the failure to help them by introducing rescue mechanisms and specialized teams to recover civilians trapped under the rubble from the first day of the disaster.

As an expression of their criticism of the United Nations' position, Syrians laid the flag of the United Nations organization on the buildings destroyed by the earthquake in the town, saying that "the United Nations has left thousands of Syrians dying without help."

Obeida al-Ali, a resident of the town, said that he had been hearing the distress of his family members from under the rubble since the first day of the earthquake, stressing that the civil defense teams made every effort with great popular support from the people without being able to remove the rubble.

Al-Ali added - to Al-Jazeera Net - that the simple civilian equipment that the people worked with could not displace thousands of tons of cement and collapsed stones over the heads of those stuck under the rubble, indicating that 3 of his family members died after 4 days of waiting for help and rescue.

One of the camps affected by the devastating earthquake that struck northern Syria (Al-Jazeera)

Simple equipment

With no hope of finding survivors, the Syrian Civil Defense teams continue to search under the rubble for new victims in the city of Jenderes in the countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, after officially announcing the cessation of search and rescue operations and the start of search and recovery operations.

For his part, Mounir al-Mustafa, deputy director of the Syrian Civil Defense Organization, confirmed the continuation of the search for victims under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Jenderes, pointing out that 516 bodies and more than 831 injured were recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings until Sunday.

Al-Mustafa said - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - that about 200 buildings in the town were completely destroyed, and about 500 buildings were partially destroyed, in addition to cracks in hundreds of buildings in the town, adding that the civil defense began operations to remove rubble from the roads to facilitate the lives of civilians.

A mass grave for the victims of the devastating earthquake in the Syrian town of Jenderes (Reuters)

The falsehood of humanity

On the outskirts of the town, under trees and inside cars, those who survived the disaster spend their daily lives in very poor humanitarian conditions, as dozens of families sleep on the ground and wrap themselves in the sky, awaiting the arrival of aid and securing shelter, after the camps that were hastily established to shelter the afflicted are crowded.

Fatima - a resident of the town - said that she shares accommodation with two families in a worn-out tent, after her house collapsed in the town and turned into piles of stones, and that they lack all the necessities of life, including food, drink and winter clothes.

According to Fatima, at dawn on Monday, she left her house in panic without taking out any clothes or identification documents, and within minutes of her leaving, the building collapsed, including furniture and belongings.

For his part, media activist Rami Al-Sayed confirmed that the earthquake - and the tragedy of Jenderes in particular - "revealed the falsehood of humanity and human rights claims, after the international emergency teams did not intervene to help the stranded and afflicted, leaving the Syrians alone to face the disaster."

Al-Sayed pointed out - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - that the civilians with their own hands and simple equipment extracted the bodies of their relatives, at a time when the countries of the world were establishing air bridges to deliver aid to the areas controlled by the Syrian regime and Turkey.