Omran Daqneesh, a boy covered in dust and blood, was rescued from the rubble of a building which was bombed in an airstrike in the war-hit country, Syria.
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Omran was caught up in a military attack on the rebel-held area of the Qaterji neighbourhood besieged by air strikes in recent weeks. The barrel bombs and the rockets are like rain daily in civilian area [s] and crowded area [s] like hospitals, schools and markets.
He is later joined by two other young children and a man injured in the air strike. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, 142 children have died in Aleppo in August alone.
Omran was rescued from the remains of a building on Wednesday night, along with his three siblings, aged one, six and 11, and his mother and father.
The Aleppo doctor who treated Omran’s head wound said in an interview that the boy had been reunited with his parents and that his family were all believed to have survived the strike.
Omran Daqneesh, 5, was the subject of a bloodied and dusty image that shocked everyone, following a horrific airstrike in Aleppo, Syria.
Aleppo, in particular, has been the scene of intense fights between the government and rebels.
The images of Omran have sparked a global outcry, much like the photo last September of three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, whose body washed ashore on a Turkish beach as his family tried to reach Europe.
Although numerous attempts to bring relief to the city in the past have failed, Russian Federation said on Thursday that it is ready to support a United Nations proposal for weekly 48-hour ceasefires to ensure aid deliveries to the city, according to the foreign ministry.
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De Mistura said he nevertheless plans to reconvene the humanitarian task force next week and believes the task force’s co-chairs – Russian Federation and the United States – still want a nonmilitary solution to Syria’s conflict that has left at least 250,000 people dead.
