The Post gained rare access to rebel-held northwest Syria, where Monday’s earthquakes have compounded what was already one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Residents feel forgotten and are pleading for international help, but it may be too late.
JINDERIS, Syria — It took four days and nights after the earthquake for the rubble to fall silent here. The strongest voices belonged to the women, residents said. Parted from their children, or fighting to save them, they screamed until their lungs gave out.
This part of Syria has endured crisis after crisis, home to millions of people who have braved war and displacement, hunger and disease. Even before the earthquake, 4.1 million here required humanitarian assistance. All day, he heard the cries. There were scratches on his hands from clawing at the earth. “Imagine still crying out after four days,” he said, and his expression turned hollow. “It’s unimaginable. Everyone died.”
Zakaria Tabakh, 26, came here from Aleppo, a city so pulverized by Assad’s barrel bombs and airstrikes that whole swaths of it are still in ruins. He built a new life in Jinderis, marrying and having two children. He had put their 2-year-old, Abdulhadi, to bed on Sunday night, lying awhile with the child before slipping out to sleep with his wife. He remembers only fragments of what followed. She was dead beneath the duvet. Abdulhadi died where he had been put down for the night.
The White Helmets’s director, Raed Saleh, said Friday that international aid, when it arrived, would come too late to help find survivors, and would go toward the removal of broken buildings.
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