The earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria a week ago killed more than 35,000 people.

Balance earthquake that shook a week ago Turkey And Syria More than 35,000 people died this Monday, and with the prospect of survivors looming, efforts are now focused on helping the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless.

But even though it’s getting harder, people are still alive amidst the piles of rubble of cities devastated by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake on February 6th.

On Monday, a 12-year-old boy was rescued in Hatay province, 182 hours after the earthquake, Turkish media reported.

The confirmed balance is 35,331 people, 31,643 people in Turkey and 3,688 people in Syria, making this cataclysm the fifth deadliest since the beginning of the 21st century.

IN Syriain a country already devastated by more than a decade of war, the numbers are feared to be much higher.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday called for international assistance to “rebuild the infrastructure” destroyed by the earthquake in the country, where more than five million people were left homeless, according to the UN.

Assad made the call after meeting with UN emergency chief Martin Griffiths, who was in Damascus and Aleppo on Monday.

Griffiths is to present an assessment of the situation at a closed meeting of the UN Security Council convened by Switzerland and Brazil in charge of the humanitarian file.

Over the weekend, the man in charge of the UN already denounced the refusal to send aid Syria.

Destroyed places of worship

The survivors of the tragedy face extremely difficult situations due to lack of water and poor sanitation.

In the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras near the epicenter, 30,000 tents have been set up, 48,000 homeless people are in schools and another 11,500 people have taken shelter in sports centers.

Hatice Goz, a volunteer psychologist in Hatay province, says they are getting “a flood of calls” from desperate parents asking about their missing children.

The Turkish city of Antakya, a thousand-year-old city known in antiquity as Antioch, was devastated and an earthquake destroyed the country’s oldest mosque.

“This place is very important for us,” complained Havva Pamukchu. “It was a precious place for all of us, Turks and Muslims. People used to come here before making the pilgrimage to Mecca.”

The city began work on the brigades to clean up garbage and install emergency toilets. reporter from AFP He said the phone signal was back.

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Sunday that 108,000 buildings had been damaged, 1.2 million people were being housed in student residences and 400,000 homeless people had been evacuated from the region.

Economic damage from the disaster could be more than $84 billion, business federation Turkconfed estimated in a report released Monday.

There is growing outrage in Turkey over the poor quality of buildings and the government’s response.

Conflict, covid, cholera

The situation is particularly difficult in Syria, where Bab al-Hawa is the only entry point for international aid to reach areas under rebel control.

The supplies are vital in a country where the health care system and infrastructure have fallen into disrepair following the conflict between the Assad government and various rebel groups that control part of the territory.

According to a journalist from AFP.

The convoy was carrying materials such as plastic for making emergency shelters, ropes and blankets, and tools such as screwdrivers and nails.

But according to UN officials, the millions left homeless need much more. “Now we are focused on helping the Syrian people,” UN Special Representative Geir Pedersen said in Damascus.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met with Assad in the Syrian capital on Sunday and said the president had said he was ready to open more border crossings to help bring aid to rebel-held areas.

“A combination of crises of conflict, covid, cholera, economic downturn and now earthquake, had to pay an unbearable price,” Tedros said after visiting Aleppo.

(According to AFP)