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Image embodies the horrors of siege in Syria

In an interview with Sky News, the paramedic who was filmed in the now-iconic footage, said cases like theirs are a daily occurrence in war-torn Aleppo.

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A man is seen in the video plucking the boy away from a scene of nighttime chaos and carrying him into the ambulance.

A nurse who treated the courageous mite said he didn’t shed a single tear the whole time – until he saw his mum in the ward. Seemingly in slow motion, he looks at his hand and then wipes it on the orange leather of his seat in an ambulance as he stares into the distance. He was caught up in a military attack on the rebel-held area of the Qaterji neighbourhood which has been besieged by air strikes in recent weeks.

The omran’s apartment building was collapsed, after they rescued. “They maybe lost their lives or limbs, or many of them became paralysed”, he said.

Aleppo, Syria s second city and former economic hub, has emerged as a top concern for the United Nations and aid agencies since regime troops seized control of the last supply route into rebel-held areas in mid-July. “Tomorrow is World Humanitarian Day, and in Syria what we are hearing and seeing is only fighting, offensives, counter-offensives, rockets, barrel bombs, mortars, hellfire cannons, napalm, chlorine, snippers, airstrikes, suicide bombers”, de Mistura said.

The UN envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said there was “no sense” in holding the meeting in light of the obstacles to delivering aid.

The image of Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless three-year-old body being brought out of the Mediterranean sea past year.

Russian Federation has proposed daily three-hour ceasefires in Aleppo, although no significant pause in air strikes is evident, and fighting continues on the ground.

More than 400,000 people have died in the conflict, which has also led to the displacement of millions of Syrians.

“We expected the plane to arrive in Aleppo airspace in two minutes, and sure enough it did”, Raslan said.

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Kirby, whose boss John Kerry has for months attempted to forge a pathway with Russian Federation to end the war, said Thursday that “we all have to pull together to try to reach a better outcome”. “We are afraid security forces will infiltrate our medical network and target ambulances as they transfer patients from one hospital to another”, Abu al-Ezz said.

Courtesy of AFP