Turkey-Syria earthquake: destruction in Aleppo, already a city martyred by war. PHOTO

There is no peace for Aleppo. The second largest city in the Syriarenamed the Northern Capital of the country, is one of the places hardest hit by the earthquake which yesterday, February 6, made both la tremble several times Southern Turkey that the Northern central Syriacausing thousands of deaths

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The images of the destroyed city, in recent years, have always had to do with the Syrian civil war: Aleppo is one of the hot spots of the conflict

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Now was the earthquake to bring more destruction to the city

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The first shock, of magnitude 7.8, occurred on the night of 6 February. The testimonies arriving from Aleppo speak of one more difficult situation than the war itself

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Anas Habbas, a 37-year-old man from Aleppo, says that immediately after the first shock he “ran down the stairs like a madman” with his son in his arms, next to his pregnant wife. “We have seen dozens of families in the grip of terror and shock. Some fell to their knees weeping or praying, as if it were the Judgment Day”

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“It’s a lot more difficult than cannon fire and bullets. I never had this feeling even in the long war years” Anas said, as reported by Handle

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“The situation in Aleppo is dramatic, the collapsed buildings, the rubble that makes the roads impassable, the terrified and cold people need everything. The earthquake is a crisis that came after all the others afflicting Syria, not least thecholera epidemic“, says from Aleppo Filippo Agostino, project coordinator of the AVSI Foundation in Syria

Also Doctors Without Borders returns a dramatic picture of the situation on the field. “Healthcare facilities are hit and overwhelmed and medical personnel in northern Syria are working around the clock to respond to the huge number of injured,” MSF said, recalling how “the number of victims increases by the hour”

Also affected areas of Idlib, capital controlled by the jihadist coalition; Of Afrin, where Turkish ethnic cleansing to the detriment of Kurdish communities had broken down in 2018; the port of Latakiaon the Mediterranean, facing Cyprus and close to the Gulf of Alexandretta in Turkey. In the photo, Aleppo

So too Hamawhere the main Russian air base in central Syria is located. In the photo, Aleppo

All of Syria is then hit for days since bad weatherbetween snow and rain. This complicate the rescueas well as the shortage in many areas of electricity and fuel, absent for some time due to the war and the economic crisis Without precedents. In the photo, Aleppo

In the photo, Aleppo

In the photo, Aleppo

In the photo, Aleppo

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