Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was rescued from a building that had been targeted in an airstrike, which completely collapsed an hour later.
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The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement it never targets populated areas and that rebels themselves hit urban areas in order to derail humanitarian efforts there.
“Omran was in the same daze and shock you saw he had when he was in the ambulance”, said Dr. Mohammedd, a surgeon in Aleppo, who doesn’t want to use his last name for security reasons.
The image of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh looking dazed, with a face half covered in blood, that has gone viral and has given a face to how bad the situation has become in Syria.
Speaking at a press conference in the Swiss city of Geneva on Thursday, UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said that he had chose to stop the meeting after just eight minutes, arguing it made “no sense” to plan aid deliveries when they would not be let into the humanitarian besieged areas.
Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov said in comments to the media that nothing could prevent the establishment of a tripartite mechanism between Russia, Turkey and Iran to resolve the crisis in Syria in light of the major role the three countries play in the region.
The photo and accompanying video, taken and distributed by the activist group Aleppo Media Centre, show Omran being pulled from a partially destroyed building and placed in a chair inside a brightly lit ambulance after an airstrike Wednesday evening.
Speaking in Geneva, he said convoys had not been able to reach surrounded towns and cities throughout the month of August.
The statement said the United Nations “counts on Russian Federation to deliver its part, regarding, in particular, the adherence of the Syrian armed forces to the pause, once it comes into effect”, and on the United States “to ensure that the armed opposition also respects the 48-hour humanitarian pause”.
U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura has long called for a 48-hour halt in fighting each week to allow aid delivery and medical evacuations from both rebel-held eastern and government-controlled western Aleppo. “Sometimes, you have to cry”. It has been confirmed that though his parents and siblings were also wounded in the attack, they survived. The second one turned little Omran’s life upside down.
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A nurse who treated Omran said “he was in a daze”.
