He cannot bring himself to leave the scene of the tragedy. In the Syrian town of Jandairis, Syria, Abdullah Abu Hamza now lives on the ruins of his building destroyed by the earthquake, which killed his nine-month-pregnant wife. In a moving testimony collected by AFP, this Palestinian refugee, who settled in a tent, says:
“They are gone now and I stay close to them, to smell them and remember them. The ruins remind me of everything related to them. »
” We had chosen a first name, we were going to call him Hajar “, he adds about their child whose birth was imminent. ” My wife was counting the days until the day we were going to meet our little girl. » His full testimony is to be discovered in the video at the top of this article.
Death toll exceeds 41,000
The death toll from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 has exceeded 41,000. The UN has appealed for help to raise one billion dollars to help these two countries.
While the chances of finding survivors are dwindling, official and medical sources have indicated that the total reached precisely 41,732 people who lost their lives, including 38,044 in Turkey and 3,688 in Syria.
After the earthquake, “anger is rising in Turkey and there will be electoral consequences”
Turkish rescuers pulled a 17-year-old girl and a woman in her twenties out of the rubble on Thursday, nearly eleven days after the quake that devastated the border area between the two countries.
In many towns and villages in both countries, rescuers are still trying to help any survivors, but with each passing hour the chances that they could have survived, in the freezing cold, under the rubble diminishes. .
