First flight of its kind in 12 years | Saudi airplane lands in Aleppo international airport, transporting food assistance to earthquake-affected Syrians

As humanitarian assistance is being delivered to regime-controlled areas following the devastating earthquake, which hit Syria on February 6 and killed thousands of Syrians, a Saudi airplane carrying tons of humanitarian assistance, landed this morning in Aleppo international airport.

 

This is the first flight from Saudi Arabia to regime-controlled areas in the past 12 years.

 

Meanwhile, a UAE airplane carrying over 25 tons of humanitarian assistance landed in Latakia airport.

 

Similarly, an airplane affiliated to the UNICEF transported food and relief assistance from Denmark to Damascus.

 

Also, a humanitarian aid convoy crossed into Al-Qusayr countryside in Homs province from Lebanon, via Jusaih border crossing.

 

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that the Armenian, Jordanian and Algerian rescue teams exited Syria, after rescuing those stuck under the rubbles of the buildings that collapsed due to the earthquake, where these teams helped in recovering bodies in regime-held areas.

 

Meanwhile, nearly ten planes landed in Aleppo, Lattakia and Damascus airports coming from China, Emirates, Sudan and Iraq, where the planes carried humanitarian aids for those affected by the earthquake, in addition to the arrival of humanitarian aids from the Libyan people to Beirut airport and the aids were transported on land to Syria.