{"id":793,"date":"2023-02-17T23:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T04:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=793"},"modified":"2023-02-17T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T04:35:20","slug":"earthquake-death-toll-reaches-44000-as-aid-workers-condemn-u-s-sanctions-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/earthquake-death-toll-reaches-44000-as-aid-workers-condemn-u-s-sanctions-on-syria-17022023\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake death toll reaches 44,000 as aid workers condemn U.S. sanctions on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria from last week\u2019s massive earthquakes is nearing 44,000. &nbsp;Many more are expected to die or have not been counted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, rescue workers pulled a 17-year-old girl out of the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras, 248 hours after the earthquake struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Syria, relief workers blamed U.S.-led sanctions against the Syrian government for hindering rescue and recovery efforts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammed Khalil, a medical worker in Aleppo, told reporters: \u201cSanctions on Syria led to a shortage of drugs for some chronic diseases, and for cancer and chemotherapy treatments. &nbsp;Due to the disaster, we urge the U.S. and Western countries to lift those sanctions on us. &nbsp;Syria has been plagued with a grave humanitarian disaster for 13 years and is still struggling now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria from last week&rsquo;s massive earthquakes is nearing 44,000. &nbsp;Many more are expected to die or have not been counted.&nbsp; Earlier, rescue workers&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}