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
syria. we appealed for help, no one responded, and now we are losing many, many lies. we lost hope and lives. lives we could have safe if they afforded us help 48 hours after the earthquake. let me ask you if i can, finally, as you look forward to the next phase of this operation, not so much a rescue boat perhaps a recovery operation. what do you need from the international community. what can other nations and people watching do to help the people of syria at this moment? in this moment, as we speak, this weekend weeks after, people who have lost their houses need assistance, but we need from the international community to send the convoys, the help for those who are affected, send medical supplies.
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
it s difficult to get people under the rubble after all this time. even if we got the assistance today or tomorrow there may be people who are not familiar with the situation, broadly speaking, about syria. how has the civil war, in syria, impacted and complicated your recovery efforts? he has, it s complicated for those who don t know the context of syria. north of syria it s an area that host most of the people who were displaced from other parts of syria since 2014 up to allow. they were in many cities in part of syria and all of them now are living in the north of syria after the botting bombings and explosions in the city and villages.
workers from around the globe are flocking to help turkey after the devastating earthquake that hit almost a week ago, but, in war torn syria which was also hit, the story is very different, it has been a brutal civil war since 2014 which has complicated rescue efforts from nations, and for reports that they saw quote no international cruise of rescuers know trucks loaded with machinery or aid, no streams of ambulances to save the wounded the border crossing into syria was empty and silent, rescue and recovery efforts have been left to the civil defense known as the white helmets which is a group of volunteers trying to save their friends, their families and more nation after this disaster who has been carrying out this action since the start of the war. they rescued two young girls from the rubble. with little aid from the outside, hope in the region of dwindling fast, that remains a challenge. earlier today i spoke with a member of the white helmets