Nearly 400,000 people have been evacuated from the earthquake zones, said the presidential office. The devastating earthquakes in the Turkish-Syrian border region one week ago have left 1.2 million people in south-eastern Turkey homeless, Turkey's presidential office said. Monday's toll update brings the total death toll in Syria to nearly 3,700. The group reportedly said it would only allow in aid via Turkey, with which it shares a single operational border crossing. Media reports in recent days have suggested that the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which governs the opposition-held areas, has rejected aid arriving from the government, as well as from the Kurdish authorities in the northeast. The Civil Defence Forces group, also known as the White Helmets, put the death toll on Monday evening at 2,274. The last death toll posted by the Health Ministry on Sunday evening stood at 1,414.īut it also devastated opposition-held areas in the northwestern Idlib province, where resources are even more scarce. The devastating earthquake struck provinces under Assad's control, including Aleppo, Latakia and Hama. International efforts should also focus on rebuilding the country's infrastructure, the Syrian president said in an official statement. Later in the day, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Assad had agreed to allow UN aid deliveries to opposition-held northwest Syria through two additional border crossings from Turkey for three months. Syrian President Bashar Assad stressed the urgent need for aid to be delivered to all areas of the country, including territory held by the opposition, during a meeting with UN relief chief Martin Griffiths on Monday. Here are other updates from Monday, February 13, on the aftermath of the deadly earthquakes: Syria's Assad calls for better aid access as death toll climbs To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video UN: International community has 'failed' Syria They rightly feel abandoned,'' he said, adding, "My duty and our obligation is to correct this failure as fast as we can." "We have so far failed the people in northwest Syria. He said that, so far, the world had failed to provide enough aid to Syria, with people there "looking for international help that hasn't arrived.'' Griffiths also said the UN would have aid moving from government-held regions in Syria to the rebel-held northwest of the country. was about the worst that these people have experienced," he added. "What is the most striking here, is even in Aleppo, which has suffered so much these many years, this moment, that moment. Griffiths drew particular attention to the plight of those in Aleppo, a major focal point in the Syrian civil war. "Now the humanitarian phase, the urgency of providing shelter, psychosocial care, food, schooling, and a sense of the future for these people, that's our obligation now." "The rescue phase is dragging live people out from the rubble and finding those who died in the rubble. Griffiths, who made the comments during a visit to the devastated northern Syrian city of Aleppo, said the disaster response was reaching a turning point. The two powerful earthquakes that struck border regions of the two countries last Monday have killed at least 35,000, with the UN expecting the number to rise to more than 50,000. United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths on Monday said the Turkey and Syria earthquake rescue phase is nearing an end, with efforts now set to turn more towards recovery.
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