but as avril also mentioned, the window is closing down. there s a tremendous effort to still look for people under the debris and rubbles and some unfortunately, as the time is passing we are likely to see less of those good news. the delivery of urgent supplies to quake-hit areas of northern syria, of course, has been very complicated because of the long-running civil war between opposition forces and the syrian government. syrians at the only united nations-approved humanitarian corridor, which is called the bab al hawa crossings, they re frustrated. they say bodies were delivered before aid was delivered. what is the situation right now? well, the situation is not great. as you can imagine, syria has been war-torn country for last 12 years. there s a record of 14.6 million
here s the head of islamic relief s office in idlib, northwest syria. the death toll cannot be estimated because we have so many people still under the rubbles, and everybody trying his best to rescue the still under rubble people. huge people, huge buildings destroyed, an entire area. for example, at a refugee camp between the north and idlib, totally destroyed. i spoke to himedan mohammed, head of syria programmes for medecins sans frontieres, about the difficulties they re facing in syria.
international world, please, from there. and he is saying, hello, internationalworld, please, hear me, my family, they are under the rubbles. so we are in a situation like this. as we know, syria, for ten years, the structure, it is destroyed. so i think this earthquake would make the situation here tragic and difficult, more and more. ., .,, ., here tragic and difficult, more and more. ., ., more. so, that was a local journalist more. so, that was a local journalist operating. - more. so, that was a local journalist operating. just l more. so, that was a local- journalist operating. just bringing us the latest from northern syria, mohammad hasan, a localjournalist there. more international pledges of help coming in. this was the german chancellor, olaf scholz. through twitter again, saying we are following the news of the earthquake in the turkish syrian border region with horror. the death toll keeps
hama and latakia. most of them are in aleppo. about 600 people are wounded now. and still, until this moment, a lot of bodies, they are under rubble as a result from this earthquake. in the opposition area, like idlib, according to some sources, i called with them, at least 30 people, they re killed, and about 60 people wounded. there are also wounded in the west of syria. i got a video from one friend from there. and he is saying, hello, international world, please, hear me, my family, they are under the rubbles. so we can imagine the situation like this. as we know, syria, for a decade, for ten years, the structure, it is destroyed.
our teams responded to all the sites and the buildings, and still now, many families now are under the rubbles. our teams are trying to save them, trying to save the people, to save all the people from under the rubble, with all of the casualties. but it s a very difficult task for us. we need help, we need the international community to do something, to do help us, to support us, north west syria now is a disaster area. we need help from everyone to save our people. lina sinjab is our correspondent in beirut and lina you felt it i believe. absolutely. it was really scary in the early hours of the morning that