This article focuses on the events of the initial five days after the earthquake and the response initiated by the Syrian civil society, which played a crucial role in absorbing the initial shock. Through a series of online interviews with volunteers who participated in the response efforts in Aleppo, Damascus, Latakia, Tartus, and Hama, it chronicles the attitudes and stories of Syrians who enthusiastically rallied together to assist one another, as well as their government's inclination to obstruct these efforts.
The region around Qardaha, in north-west Syria, did not attract much media attention in the aftermath of the earthquake. Qardaha is well known among Syrians as the hometown of the president Bashar al-Assad, and the region in general as a stronghold of regime loyalists. And yet even here the population did not receive the necessary aid. The earthquake impacted people who were already experiencing an economic crisis, afflicted by inflation, corruption, and the absence of the State.
His Excellency further explained that this assistance demonstrates the ongoing support of the Kingdom of Bahrain for their brothers and sisters in Syria. It
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