Omran Daqneesh, the five-year-old Syrian boy who was injured and separated from his parents during an airstrike on August 18, has finally been reunited with his mother and father.
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Rescue workers and journalists arrived at Qaterji shortly after the strike and began pulling victims from the rubble.
More than 290,000 people have been killed and more than half the population has been displaced since Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 with anti-government protests that escalated into a brutal multi-front war. The U.N.is hoping to secure a weekly 48-hour pause to the fighting in Aleppo.
At the time, I think we all thought that that has to be the most hard of choices: either stay in Syria, stay under the bombardment and the barrel bombs, stay inside the besieged zones or leave and risk the sea, risk the crossing, risk that your child is not going to make it to the other side alive.
The pro-opposition Aleppo Media Centre said the pictures of Omran had been taken in the rebel-held Qaterji district of the city late on Wednesday, reportedly following Russian air strikes that killed at least three people and injured 12 others.
Omar’s three siblings (ages 1, 6, and 11) survived, as did his mom and dad.
Charities say Omran and his family now face an uncertain future, as Aleppo continues to be the focus of battles and bombardment, with no aid deliveries so far able to enter rebel-held areas. According to a doctor working in Aleppo, Abo Mohammadian, eight people died in the strike, of which five were children.
The nurse who treated Omran has told the ABC the boy did not cry as he was being treated, describing him being “in shock”. Moscow instead said the bombing was carried out by Syrian rebels seeking to overthrow the Assad regime.
In September of a year ago, it was the heartbreaking photo of young Alan Kurdi washing up on the shore near Turkey.
The Aleppo, in northern Syria is known for civil wars from many years. “Her ankle was pinned beneath the rubble”, Raslan said.
Doctors in Aleppo call hospitals by code names to avoid any infiltration by security forces in their medical network and safeguard the ambulances used to transport the patients.
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“Not one single convoy in one month has reached any of the humanitarian besieged areas”, he told reporters.
