Ali Daqneesh initially survived an airstrike Wednesday night with his 4-year-old brother Omran Daqneesh, their two sisters and parents in the war-torn city of Aleppo.
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The nurse who treated Omran has told the ABC the boy did not cry as he was being treated, describing him being “in shock”.
Eight people died in the strike, including five children, according to a doctor who only gave his first name as Abo Mohammadian.
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.
Video and photos of the boy sitting dazed and bloodied in an ambulance were shared widely on social media, with many expressing shock and outrage. Among them, five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, who you see above. The terror strikes occurred in the rebel-held area of the Qaterji neighbourhood which has been besieged by air strikes in recent weeks, The Independent reported.
Omran was rescued with his three siblings, aged one, six and 11, along with his mother and father from the rubble of their destroyed block of flats.
A video of Omran being pulled from the remains of their family home has brought world-wide attention to the ongoing war in Syria.
But several monitoring groups in Syria have made numerous reports of Syrian government and Russian aircraft conducting bombing raids in urban areas controlled by Islamist groups and Syrian opposition fighters.
The youngster, Omran, was covered in blood and rubble as he was saved in Aleppo following an apparent airstrike. 5-year-old Omar runs his hands over his blood-covered face and later wipes them on the ambulance chair.
Last year, worldwide sympathy for victims of Syria’s war was heightened by a photo of a drowned 3-year-old refugee from Syria, Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish tourist beach.
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On Twitter, people have rallied behind the hashtag #OmranDaqneesh to bash the world’s political leaders on their failure to respond to the Syrian war and letting children like Omran be crushed between their tug-of-war.
