The image of the stunned and tired looking boy, sitting in an orange chair inside an ambulance covered in dust and with blood on his face, encapsulates the horrors inflicted on the northern city and is being widely shared on social media.
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The images of the child struck a chord on social media.
“It was dark already but I saw a building that had totally collapsed and another half destroyed”, he said.
Increased fighting has resulted in a month-long delay in aid deliveries to besieged areas of the country – a fact that caused the UN to cut short a humanitarian meeting on Thursday morning that was co-chaired by Russian Federation and the United States. He called the U.N.’s weekly Syria task force meeting to a close after just eight minutes on Thursday, saying that there was “no point” in continuing if aid trucks weren’t being allowed to enter the city.
And as elsewhere in Syria, Aleppo’s children often bear the brunt of the fighting, deprived of schooling, malnourished, dying of preventable diseases, vulnerable to the constant drumbeat of violence.
A heartbreaking image of a five-year-old Syrian boy sitting bloodied and alone in the back of an ambulance has served as a shocking reminder of the brutality of the conflict.
The Telegraph reported Omran was treated for his head injury at the M10 hospital and released later that night.
The nurse who treated Omran has told the ABC the boy did not cry as he was being treated, describing him being “in shock”.
Named in reports as Omran, he is one of the five children that were injured in the military airstrike.
“That would require some heavy lifting from not only the two co-chairs (Russia and the United States) but also those who have an influence on those who are fighting on the ground”. Rescue workers worked until 5 a.m.to retrieve a final victim from the rubble.
People like recent GOP candidates who said that they would turn away any and all refugees from Syria, or any refugee who identifies as a Muslim, because of western fear of what those war-torn individuals might do once on free soil.
“We sent the younger children immediately to the ambulance, but the 11-year-old girl waited for her mother to be rescued. Her ankle was pinned beneath the rubble”, Raslan said.
The dazed boy sits quietly in the chaos, before touching his face and then wiping the blood and dirt on the chair.
Since mid-2012, Aleppo has been roughly split between opposition control in the east and government forces in the west.
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An informant told activist networks that a jet had left a Russian airbase on Wednesday evening.
