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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Clodagh Kilcoyne, Henriette Chacar and Marco Trujillo

Medecins Sans Frontieres gains access to quake zone in Syria

Displaced Syrian man, Omar Barakat, sits next to an injured child at a camp for earthquake survivors, on the outskirts of rebel-held town of Jandaris, Syria February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said a convoy of 14 of its trucks had entered northwestern Syria on Sunday to assist in earthquake rescue operations, as concerns grow over lack of access to the war-ravaged area.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has been pressuring authorities in that region of Syria to stop blocking access as it seeks to help hundreds of thousands of people in the wake of the devastating Feb. 6 quake that hit the region.

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