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It was as if there was an almost inextricable link between grief and the Syrians over the past 12 years. From the tragedy of killing, forced displacement, and refugee camps, passing through death boats, the train of grief finally reached a station that was not taken into account, where the catastrophe of the devastating earthquake in northern Syria and southern Turkey, in which refugees are crowded. Syrians.

The news of the earthquake was a shock to the expatriate Syrians, as their feelings were distributed between the Syrian north and the Turkish south, as the news came bearing the mourning of family, lovers and friends in the north and south.

Al-Jazeera Net monitored 3 funeral homes in Germany (one of the countries of Syrian asylum), in Munich, Frankfurt and Badfeld Bad.

The mouthpiece of everyone was the pain about their inability to stand by their families in this ordeal or even their funeral, as the Syrian has not been able to enter Turkey since 2016 except with a visa that needs about two months to be extracted, and some of them have appealed to the authorities to allow bringing the rest of the families, especially with the presence of children They have lost all their families, and they have only relatives that laws and borders prevent them from taking care of.

Bassam Jamil Al-Ali died with 11 of his family and guests in Kahramanmaraş (Al-Jazeera)

The survival of a child and the loss of 12 from one family

In Munich, Nidal Jamil al-Ali, from Jabal al-Zawiya in Syria's Idlib, is gripped by grief mixed with helplessness.

Al-Ali arrived in Germany as a refugee on foot in 2015, while his only brother, Bassam, and his family remained in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, where he and his family died in the earthquake, while the family survived an injured child who had only his uncle in Germany.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Ali says, "When I learned of the earthquake, I called my brother directly, and he did not respond, and after multiple attempts to reach those who knew him, an acquaintance in the area told me that my brother's house had become on the ground and no one knows the fate of his family. I stayed two days in the hope that they were alive, until he reached me." The news of their death and the survival of a child.

Painful details narrated by Al-Ali about 12 victims from the family of his brother Bassam (51 years old), as well as 4 other victims who were visiting his brother’s house, who are a woman and 3 children, explaining that they were removed from under the rubble on the fifth day, as the means of excavation varied from manual labour. And heavy machinery, and finally they were buried in Marash due to the difficulty of transporting them into the Syrian interior.

The father, Ahmed Lata, and his two children, Youssef and Nasser, two months before the accident (Al-Jazeera)

as a result of slowness and negligence

In Frankfurt there was talk of another tragedy, in which a family perished and two injured children survived.

Al-Jazeera Net met with the sons of the late Ahmed Lata from the village of Al-Bara in Idlib countryside, in the condolences of their father and brothers who died in the Turkish city of Aydman.

Sobhi Ahmed Latta says that he arrived in Germany in 2016 through family reunification, explaining that his father (64 years old) - may God have mercy on him - was paralyzed and had two wives, each living with her children in a house in Aydman.

He added, "But death took the father, along with his wife, Fatima Barhoum, 36 years old, and my three brothers, Musa, Mays, and Nasser, while Reem was rescued after suffering 3 fractures in the skull, as we found her after days in a hospital in the capital, Ankara, as well as Youssef, who is injured and is with his aunt, the father's wife."

The brothers Sobhi, Bashar, Muhammad, Ghazi and Fouad Latta in the condolences of their father and the rest of the family who died in the earthquake (Al-Jazeera)

In turn, Bashar Ahmed Latta says, "The first day after the earthquake occurred, my sister arrived at the father's house, and told us that Youssef and Reem are alive, and Nasser is still alive, but under the rubble, and she sent us a video of Nasser saying to his sister: I want my mother, then another video saying only: Mama, Mama." ".

For his part, Muhammad Ahmad Latta says, "After the earthquake, a young man from the neighbors was able to enter the house and save my sister Reem and my brother Youssef, and he returned to save the rest, but an aftershock led to the collapse of the stairs and the death of the young man."

He added, "It was possible to save Nasser, who was alive for about 42 hours and died minutes after being taken out, as there was a slowdown in rescue operations, and my brother Haboush arrived from Istanbul after suffering a 22-hour travel due to the roads being cut off, and after his arrival, work needed a winch, but the owner of the winch He apologized because the work needed a bigger winch, and when he came with another one, he asked for police approvals and my brother’s written approval not to be responsible for the lives of those trapped under the rubble.”

Mustafa Karjoum: Thousands of Syrians died and hundreds of thousands were displaced, and aid did not enter until the sixth day (Al-Jazeera)

accuse the United Nations

In turn, the lawyer, Mustafa Hussein Karjoum, from Jisr al-Shughur, held a funeral in the city of Bad Field Bad for his relatives who died in the Turkish city of Antakya.

Al-Jazeera Net visited him at his home, where he stated that his family had offered 11 victims from his sister's family, her children, and his cousin's family.

Regarding the slow rescue and aid operations in northwestern Syria, Karjoum said, "The United Nations is a major partner in the crime, as it invoked the condition of roads and crossings and left people to their fate. After 3 days, the UN envoy Pedersen appeared to talk about the possibility of aid entering northern Syria," as he put it.

He added, "Unfortunately, thousands of Syrians died under the rubble, and hundreds of thousands were displaced out in the open in cold weather that dropped below zero degrees, and aid did not enter until the sixth day, while they cooperated with the Syrian regime, which is the main reason for the displacement of Syrians."