President al-Assad and Mrs. Asma get assured about earthquake injured, inspect rubble removal in Lattakia

• Published date: 11 February 2023
• Publication title: Arab News Service

11 February 2023 (Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)) Lattakia, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad and Mrs. Asma al-Assad on Saturday arrived in Lattakia city where they visited the injured and the affected families due to the earthquake and inspected the ongoing rescue operations, and the removal of rubble in Lattakia province.

President al-Assad and Mrs. Asma got assured about the injured at Tishreen University Hospital, and they got assured about the health of Mrs. Doha Nour al-Allah and her son Ibrahim Zakarya who were pulled out from under the rubble in Jableh yesterday after 5 days of the earthquake.

President al-Assad and Mrs. Asma visited the earthquake affected families who are staying in al-Bassel education training center in Lattakia, reassured their condition, and inspected the ongoing rescue operations and rubble removal.

In a response to a question about whether the earthquake made a possible change in the West's position and in the international community's dealings with Syria, President al-Assad said 'The West's position regarding humanitarian situations, regardless of the earthquake and any catastrophic situation, has not changed and remains the same.'

'When I talk about the West we don't mean the west in the popular sense, but in the political sense in the first step and the ethical sense which the western politicians are carrying,' President al-Assad went on to say.

He also answered another question about Arab sympathy and help towards the Syrians in their ordeal, and said: 'Not only sympathy but the feeling of belonging of the Arab peoples has not changed or been altered.'

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