Syrian opposition activists released a haunting footage showing 5-year-old Omran rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating air strike.
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“He was in critical condition for the past three days and passed away this morning”, Saddiq said.
Omran Daqneesh is among the lucky ones – rescued alive after his home was turned to rubble in a bombing.
Ali Daqneesh, 10, died Saturday of injuries he sustained in an airstrike earlier in the week, according to CNN.
He says the blast split the couch in half and Omran fell in between the two halves. The striking and powerful image has awakened the world yet again to the Syrian crisis.
Syrian activist Kenan Rahmani wrote of the boy’s death on a Facebook on Saturday and poignantly said that while Omran became the “global symbol of Aleppo’s suffering” his brother “Ali is the suffering itself”.
Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was one of five children injured during a military strike yesterday.
According to CBS News, the civil war in Syria “has claimed the lives of more than 400,000 people, 41,000 of them children”.
The Aleppo Media Centre later confirmed the news.
The human rights group says that, since July 31, 468 civilians, including 100 children under the age of 18, have died in Aleppo. Omran has been released from the hospital and is now recovering with the rest of his family.
More than 12,500 people, including more than 4,500 children, were killed over a 22-month period by Syrian and Russian air bombardment, the SOHR reported.
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The northern city of Aleppo has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks. Omran’s home city Aleppo has been divided by government control in the west and opposition fighters in the east since 2012.
