Journalists from the rebel media group Aleppo Media Center swiftly sent a video of the boy’s rescue to global news media outlets and posted images in social media to tell the everyone that countless Syrian boys and girls will get bloodied without end unless the world comes together and put a stop to Assad’s disastrous civil war.
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Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo.
Video of a small boy, bloodied and covered in dust, who was rescued after an apparent air strike in the Syrian city of Aleppo, sparked outrage and concern on social media on Thursday.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov later announced that Moscow was “ready to implement the first 48-hour “humanitarian pause” to deliver humanitarian aid to Aleppo residents” next week.
The boy, who survived the onslaught, was identified by a doctor and brought to the hospital known as “M10” on Wednesday (Aug 17) night in the wake of the air strike by Russian jets on Qaterji, the neighbourhood held by rebels.
Doctors said Daqneesh suffered from superficial head wounds but no brain injury.
A nurse who treated Omran said “he was in a daze”.
Ammar Hammami said: “‘The media reaction was because the strike on the Qaterji neighbourhood was a big massacre so when this child emerged there were lots of journalists”, said.
“Ali, ten years old, died of wounds he sustained in his stomach at an Aleppo hospital”, Mahmoud Raslan told dpa.
Konashenkov said Russian reconciliation center monitoring groups stationed in Aleppo record daily terrorist shellings of its residential neighborhoods from improvised multiple rocket launcher systems and artillery.
At least five other children died in the bombing, according to NBC News.
“It was as if he was asleep”.
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Abu Rajab from the Syrian American Medical Society said: “He didn’t say anything except to ask for his parents”.
