ARC’s President Hamlaoui: “New kits of humanitarian aid to be destined to Syria, Turkey”
BY: Hana Saada
ALGIERS- The President of the Algerian Red Crescent, Ibtissem Hamlaoui declared that, under the directives of the President of the Republic, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and the Minister of the National Defense, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, new bunches of humanitarian aid will soon be destined to Syria and Turkey.
“The ARC quickly integrated into the momentum of solidarity by mobilizing all its means to help the victims,” she said in a statement to the press. The CRA aid consisting of medicines and food products was transported by six planes in addition to 45 volunteers specialized in first aid.
She added that discussions were underway with the Syrian and Turkish Red Crescents to determine the real needs of both countries.
“Other operations are planned towards these populations hard hit by these deadly earthquakes”, noted the president of the ARC, stressing that Algeria has never failed in its humanitarian duties.
In this vein, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad hailed, on Friday, from the disaster-stricken locality of Bustan Al Qasr in Aleppo, the tireless efforts deployed by Algerian teams of the Civil Protection and the Algerian Red Crescent (ARC) currently operating in Syria to take part in rescue and search operations for missing persons following the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey last Monday, killing more than 24,000 people for the moment.
In a statement to the Algerian television crew in Syria, during a visit to this locality to assess the damage caused by the earthquake, the Syrian President said “I belong to a generation that learned at a very young age at school that Algeria is the country of the million and a half martyrs, and to whom it was explained how Syrian women had sold their valuables in order to buy aid to be sent to the Algerians” during the liberation war.
The relationship between Algeria and Syria is based on “Syria’s support for Algeria” during the Glorious War of National Liberation, as well as on “Algeria’s support for decades for the Arab and Syrian causes”, he said, adding that “it is not surprising to see this relationship demonstrated in this glorious way through this impressive show of solidarity”.
“We feel that the Algerians have come from deep inside Syria to help the Syrians,” said the Syrian President. “This is the sincere feeling we have always had towards the Algerians,” he added.
