The recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria has been more than just a natural disaster. From northwest Syria, a volunteer of the well-respected civilians’ group White Helmets tells The Wire about how successive pleas for key equipment were ignored in the crucial period just after the earthquake.
their injuries. what we need is equipment that can help us to remove the gravel and somehow to enable us to help our community to recover from the impact of the earthquake. so people can resume to their lives and they can get back to normalcy in their lives. ismail alabdullah live for us in syria, ismail, thank you so much we appreciate your time, my best to you in all of your colleagues still working to rescue and recover people in syria. thank you for your time. thank you. thank you for making time for us, we are off tomorrow night but next week make sure to catch ayman back on msnbc saturday at 8 am sunday at nine followers on tiktok and instagram at ayman msnbc, a
not to let people die from their injuries. what we need is equipment that can help us to remove the gravel and somehow to enable us to help our community to recover from the impact of the earthquake. so people can resume to their lives and they can get back to normalcy in their lives. ismail alabdullah live for us in syria, ismail, thank you so much we appreciate your time, my best to you in all of your
The major earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have caused widespread devastation. Nations all around the globe are helping Turkey recover but the civil war in Syria is making outside help nearly impossible. MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin spoke with White Helmet volunteer, Ismail Alabdullah, who has been trying to pull survivors from the rubble, about what it’s like there on the ground in Syria.