He had a head injury but no brain damage, and was treated at the hospital then released, al-Ezz, the doctor, told the AP. The U.N.is hoping to secure a 48-hour pause in the fighting in Aleppo. The image of Omran, however, is the one that drew the most attention on social media.
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The statement comes only hours after Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special envoy for Syria, had suspended the weekly meeting of a humanitarian task force after eight minutes out of frustration at the inability of the group, co-chaired by Russian Federation and the USA, to arrange a ceasefire.
The boy, identified as 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, was brought to a hospital known only as “M10” after an airstrike in the rebel-held neighborhood of Qaterji, according to Osama Abu al-Ezz, a doctor.
An aid worker scoops the boy up and quickly sets him down by himself inside the ambulance before returning to rescue more from the rubble of the air strike in Aleppo.
Photojournalist Mahmoud Raslan, who took the photo of Omran, said he had to pass along three dead bodies before getting to the child. He said he had passed along three lifeless bodies before receiving the wounded boy.
The photographer Muhammed Raslan was there when rescue forces removed from the rubble 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh: “One girl was waiting for them to rescue her mother and her leg had been torn by the destruction”. According to reports, their apartment building collapsed shortly after the family was rescued. Shortly after the attack, rescue workers and journalists arrived. He is later joined in the ambulance by several other bloodied children.
People began photoshopping the little boy into political photos, such as this one in which he sits as “the real representative” of the Syrian people. He appears dazed and confused as he looks at his hand covered in the blood from his head.
Doctors in Aleppo use code names for hospitals, which they say have been systematically targeted by government airstrikes.
Activists living in opposition areas rely on informers in the government-controlled Latakia province to warn residents of impending airstrikes.
Footage of a five-year old boy whose face was covered in blood in dust after an airstrike in Syria has sparked worldwide outrage.
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No one was injured in the first strike, said Mr Raslan.
