For many who saw the video and still photos online, the sight was reminiscent of the image that circulated almost a year ago of a Syrian toddler whose tiny drowned corpse washed up on a Turkish beach – 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, one small casualty of the enormous exodus driven by the savagery of the country’s multi-sided conflict.
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His little brother Omran was found alive in the rubble – and images of the soot-covered, bleeding 5-year-old were widely shared as a haunting illustration of the horrors of war. “He’s stunned. Inside his home one moment and the next, lost in the flurry and fury of war and chaos”, Kate said while struggling to hold back her tears. The rest of his family – his parents, Omran and two other Daqneesh children, ages 1 and 6 – were inside the house and were rescued before it collapsed. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said Russia’s other “condition” for implementing the temporary cease-fire was that separate routes would be established for United Nations convoys to bring aid to rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo and to the western side, held by the government. Thousands of people have been killed there, including 4,500 children, numerous innocent people loss their life in these civil wars.
He sat glassy eyed with shock while blood trickled down an open wound on his face while his feet barely extended beyond the cushion of the ambulance backseat where he was placed by rescue workers. Russian Federation said it backs an attempt to deliver goods next week as a “pilot project”. It was a 48 hour ceasefire in Aleppo, so that the workers can help two million people still in the city.
“It’s taxing, emotionally”, said Abu Rajad, the nurse.
Doctors in Aleppo use code names for hospitals, which they say have been systematically targeted by government airstrikes. “This is a daily fact of Russian and Syrian government airstrikes”. On Wednesday evening, an informant relayed word of a warplane taking off from the Russian air base at Hmeimim.
Raslan rushed him to the ambulance, he said.
“If a strike really did take place”, he said, it was not an aerial strike but either a gas cylinder “used in large quantities there by terrorists” or a mortar shell.
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Redur Khalil, a spokesman for the main Kurdish fighting force, said the bombs struck residential areas and positions belonging to the Kurdish police force in the city of Hassakeh.
