On Saturday, activists said, Omran’s 10-year-old brother, Ali, died from wounds sustained in the same airstrike, launched by forces allied to Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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Activists said that multiple airstrikes targeted the opposition-held neighborhood of al-Qaterji late Wednesday evening.
Video footage and pictures of Omran Daqneesh being loaded into the emergency vehicle during fighting in Aleppo were being used as a symbol of the suffering of children in the war-torn country.
The airstrike that destroyed the home of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh who was photographed after being pulled from the rubble has claimed the life of his brother. His cartoon character T-shirt is covered in dust, the left side of his face is bloody. “Ali is Syria as Syrians know it”.
The death of Ali Daqneesh, who was reported to be 10 years old, was confirmed by his family to Raf Sanchez, a reporter with the Telegraph newspaper who spoke with them.
He is later joined by two other young children and a man injured in the air strike.
The jihadi’s have reportedly killed 323 women and 368 children according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, The Times reports.
Russian and Syrian warplanes have intensified their air strikes on the rebel-held east of the city since insurgents made an advance last month, breaking an effective siege.
In this frame grab from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry press service, a Russian long-range Tu-22M3 bomber flies during an air strike over the Aleppo region of Syria on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.
On Friday, the World Food Program described the situation in besieged areas as “nightmarish” amid growing global concern over the humanitarian cost of the war in Syria.
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Although numerous attempts to bring relief to the city in the past have failed, Russian Federation said on Thursday that it is ready to support a United Nations proposal for weekly 48-hour ceasefires to ensure aid deliveries to the city, according to the foreign ministry.
