Syrian activists released haunting footage showing Omran Daqneesh, aged 5, rescued from a partially destroyed building in the aftermath of the airstrike late Wednesday in the northern city, which has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks.
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A Syrian boy has died from wounds from the airstrike that turned his younger brother, Omran Daqneesh, into an internationally known symbol of the devastation in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Ali was wounded during an aerial bombardment earlier this week and has since died as a result of his injuries.
A surgeon who gave his name only as Dr. Abdelrasool said Ali suffered severe damage to his right kidney and that his lung had collapsed. In them, a dust-caked, bloodied Omran sits in an orange chair in an ambulance, his legs too short to reach the floor. Omran, his siblings and parents were all plucked from the rubble wounded, but alive, following the August 17 bombing on the Qaterji neighborhood in rebel-held east Aleppo.
“The Aleppo Media Center, an anti-government activist organization in Syria, confirmed in an email that Ali died Saturday morning”, wrote Time. The image caused worldwide outrage and symbolised the suffering of Syrian civilians who remain in the war torn country.
Omran’s home city Aleppo has been divided by government control in the west and opposition fighters in the east since 2012.
More than 290,000 people have been killed since Syria’s conflict broke out, including almost 15,000 children.
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Russian Federation on Thursday said it supported the idea of weekly 48-hour ceasefires to allow humanitarian aid to enter besieged parts of Aleppo, a plan the rebels also cautiously welcomed.
