Ali Daqnees, the 11-year-old brother of Omar Daqnees, succumbed to his injuries on 20 August, days after his family was struck by an airstrike in Aleppo.
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The video and pictures were widely circulated online and in the media, refocusing public opinion on Syria’s five-year-old civil war and the plight of civilians, particularly in Aleppo. He was taken to hospital with his parents and siblings, but died of his injuries yesterday, activists in Aleppo said, adding that mourners were gathering at the family’s temporary home.
“His general conditions were bad”, said the man wearing a surgical mask who identified himself as Abu Rasoul in a video released by the Aleppo Media Center. Khalid Albaih’s cartoon “Choices for Syrian Children” shows two children – Omran Daqneesh and Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler who became an iconic symbol after his tiny body was discovered a year ago washed ashore a Turkish beach.
The human rights group says that, since July 31, 468 civilians, including 100 children under the age of 18, have died in Aleppo. He had undergone two surgeries, al-Shaghel said. Omran’s home city Aleppo has been divided by government control in the west and opposition fighters in the east since 2012. “His heart stopped three times, we resurrected him three times but with deep regret he died in the end”.
Aleppo was “once Syria’s commercial and industrial centre”, says BBC.
United Nations, -United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief has called for an urgent action to help more than 100,000 children who are now “trapped in the horror” in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo.
Reports that ties between the United States and Russian Federation are growing stronger and could extend to collaboration on airstrikes against targets inside Syria has drawn criticism from former US Ambassador for War Crime Issues Stephen Rapp.
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Jessica McBride is a Heavy contributor. She has also appeared as a crime reporter on Investigation Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Oxygen Channel.
