The brother of the Syrian boy whose impassive, bloodied and dust-covered image struck a nerve across the globe died of injuries from the airstrike this week on his family’s house in Aleppo.
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A general view shows the site of last Wednesday’s airstrike where five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was injured in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo.
However, the surgeon who treated Omran says “he has been discharged from hospital”.
The Halab Today opposition TV station posted a photo of Ali, 10, in a hospital with a tube coming out of his mouth.
As we’ve reported, Omran appears dazed and still as he sits in a bright orange seat.
Kenan Rahmani, a Syrian activist wrote online: “Omran became the “global symbol of Aleppo’s suffering” but to most people he is just that – a symbol”.
The Observatory said the death toll of an air raid on the northern village of Orem on Saturday rose to least 25 people including three children and four women.
Now, opposition activists say his older brother Ali has been killed.
Similar to the images of Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach last September, it brought a tangible and human face to the conflict in Syria. It was five years ago that President Obama declared Syria’s tyrannical president Bashar Assad had to go.
More than 290,000 people have been killed since Syria’s conflict broke out, including almost 15,000 children. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented 468 civilian deaths in the embattled, divided city since July 31.
Aisha, a mother of two, who fled after barrel bombings but still lives in the countryside of the embattled city, said: “All Syrians, and me, thank the world for their feelings of sorrow, but why don’t you help us to find peace?”
Tension escalated in Aleppo as the fight between the government and rebel forces intensified in recent weeks leaving hundreds dead.
“Ali’s heart stopped and we tried to rescue him”.
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The Syrian government and Russian Federation have intensified air strikes there recently.
