The United Nations Ready To Help Transportation Assistance For Turkish Earthquake Victims From The Syrian Government Region To The Region Of The Rebel Group

Martin Griffiths (glasses) while reviewing aid deliveries for Turkish earthquake victims in Syria. (Twitter/@UNReliefChief)

JAKARTA - The United Nations (UN) will help move aid from government-controlled territory in Syria to the northwest of the rebel-held country, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said during a visit to Aleppo in northern Syria on Monday.

"We will receive assistance moving from here to the northwest. But northwest only one part of Syria as you know it," UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said during a visit to Aleppo in northern Syria on Monday.

It is known that the urgent supply delivery to earthquake-hit areas in northern Syria is complicated by the longstanding civil war between opposition forces and the government led by President Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian officials have repeatedly said the government is ready to send aid to rebel-controlled territory, but no aid has been reported to have entered from territory controlled by the government since the earthquake.

The Syrian government approved the delivery of aid to rebel areas in the northwest on Friday, but no time limit was given.

The government-controlled earthquake aid from parts of Syria to rebel-controlled territory has been detained by the issue of approval with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, said a source familiar with the matter.

HTS, theAPpropriation of Jabhat al-Nusra affiliated with al Qaeda, is currently the dominant power in Idlib, Syria.

Most recently, the United Nations welcomed the decision of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday to open "two crossing points for the Bab Al-Salam and Al Ra'ee border from Turkey to northwestern Syria for three months, allowing timely delivery of humanitarian aid."

"Opening these intersection points together with facilitating humanitarian access, accelerating visa approval and facilitating travel between hubs will allow more aid to enter, sooner," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

Previously, since Thursday last week, the PBB sent its first aid convoy to Syria from Turkey since the earthquake occurred, through the only border crossing that Bab al-Hawa opened. Since then, additional UN aid convoys have entered through the same border.