The boy – identified by doctors as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh – tries to wipe the blood off his head, unaware of the injury he has sustained as he sits in an ambulance.
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By yesterday evening, the internet memes of Omran have started appearing online.
No one was injured in the first strike, he said.
Doctors feared Omran may have suffered internal injuries when he was pinned under the the remains of building, which collapsed an hour after he was rescued. UNICEF estimates that 8.4 million children have been affected by the conflict. After the attack, the rescue workers and journalists arrived and about eight people were died in the airstrike including children.
His video footage and pictures show young Omran Daqneesh, sitting covered in dust with a streak of blood on one side of his face following an airstrike on his home in eastern Aleppo. The city of Aleppo was once a serious commercial and industrial hub for Syria.
Omran’s family are among them. They said the USA must get rebels to break ranks with the Nusra Front, a task that may be more hard after its fighters successfully broke Aleppo’s siege earlier this month. The little Omran was rescued with three siblings and his parents.
The pictures of Omran – referred to by many as “the boy in the ambulance” – were reminiscent of the image of Aylan Kurdi, another Syrian boy whose body was found on a beach in Turkey a year ago after he drowned as he and his family attempted to cross the Mediterranean in the hope of finding refuge in Europe. Stay tuned with us for latest news!
The horror generated by the image of Omran in the ambulance echoes the anguished global response to pictures of Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy whose body was found on a beach in Turkey, which came to encapsulate the tragedy of Syria’s civil war.
On Thursday, the world body’s special envoy to Syria cut short a meeting of an ad hoc committee that is chaired by Russian Federation and the United States and tasked with de-escalating the violence so that relief can reach beleaguered civilians.
On Thursday, the United Nations suspended its humanitarian task force in Syria amid frustration over intensified fighting that has prevented aid deliveries to besieged areas for at least a month.
Russian Federation said Thursday it was ready to back the initiative – on condition that the aid convoys should travel to both rebel-controlled and government-controlled parts of the city.
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A father of a baby girl himself, Rislan said the expression of the little boy hit him hard.
