The older brother of a Syrian boy who was splashed across TV screens around the world after being injured during an air strike has died.
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Omran Daqneesh’s older brother succumbs to injuries, dies.
Ali Daqneesh, 10, was wounded in the air strike on Wednesday alongside his three siblings, his mother and his father.
Aleppo, a city of 2 million divided between pro- and anti-government camps, has been particularly hard hit by five years of civil war.
The doctor said Ali suffered a lot of trauma.
On Wednesday night, a video of Omran Daqneesh was taken as he was placed into an ambulance after an air strike near his home in the northern city of Aleppo in Syria.
The powerful imagery reverberated across social media, drawing to mind the anguished global response to the photos of Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy whose body was found on a Turkish beach and came to represent the horrific toll of Syria’s civil war.
Bombing and years of warfare have reduced large sections of Aleppo to rubble.
Aleppo has strategic importance as the country’s largest city and a vital economic hub. Regime strongholds were no longer seen as impenetrable. Apart from the coalition of Western countries, only Russian Federation and the Russia-backed Syrian army have access to fighter jets.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on August 19 that Russian warplanes “never work on targets in civilian areas”.
In an interview with CNN’s Hala Gorani on Thursday, Rapp complained of “massive violations of humanitarian law and war crimes”.
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. It puts us on the wrong side.
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Kate ended the segment saying, “This is Omran”.
