An aid convoy has arrived in earthquake-stricken northwest Syria from the eastern Deir al-Zor province, showing how aid can cross a frontline in a country’s ongoing civil war.
The aid convoy arrived overnight in the territory governed by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to a Reuters witness.
According to the news agency, Syrian Arab tribes had organised it. As a result of the civil war in their country, many Syrians who were displaced from Deir al-Zor to the rebel-held northwest are members of powerful Arab tribes.
According to organiser Hamoud Saleh al-Darjah, more aid was being gathered. He told Reuters that the aid would be distributed equally throughout the northern region.
“This isn’t the last campaign,” he said.