Local Council: Jenderes is a disaster-stricken city, and the humanitarian situation worsened for 115,000 people due to the earthquake

ARK News... The local Jenderes City Council in Afrin, Syrian Kurdistan, issued its latest update on the damage caused by the devastating earthquake, in which it said that Jenderes is a stricken city and more than 115,000 people were affected by the earthquake.

The council said in a statement: The city had a high population density before the earthquake, as the population of Jenderes and its countryside reached more than 115,000 people living below the poverty line in buildings that collapsed and cracked greatly.

It added that the very difficult humanitarian situation was exacerbated by the devastating earthquake that struck the city and its countryside. The city was declared a disaster-stricken city by the Jenderes Local Council on 2-7-2023.

According to the detailed reports available at the Jenderes Local Council - Disaster Management Operations Room, the statistics are as follows

Deaths: 1,100 people
Number of established camps: 39 camps
Number of families served in the camps: 3,000 families
Number of families is not served: 1200 families
The number of damaged buildings: 1110 buildings
Totally demolished buildings: 278

The local council surged to ensure the distribution of relief materials and drinking water, and to rehabilitate shelters for those affected, and tents for those affected to complement what was established of shelters with the aim of reaching 1,200 families within the shelters, and working to restore life to the stricken city by evaluating the water and sewage networks and restarting them within the current capacity and securing a field hospital containing a surgical operating room, and securing baby food, milk, and what mothers need and care for, in addition to rehabilitating the infrastructure and institutions and reassuring the residents.

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