He was identified as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, who was treated for head wounds on Wednesday, doctors said.
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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.
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 photo was released along with a video by the Aleppo Media Center, an anti-Assad activist group.
The images have captured the attention of people throughout the world on social media. He said none of the family members sustained major injuries but the apartment building collapsed shortly after they were rescued.
INNOCENCE LOST Children as young as three years old are working. Osama Abu al-Ezz confirmed he was brought to the hospital known as “M10” Wednesday night following an airstrike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Qaterji with head wounds, but no brain injury, and was later discharged.
“Omran was afraid and astonished and he didn’t cry because he was shocked”, the surgeon named by the BBC as Dr. Mohammad said, adding that the child hadn’t spoken a word.
More than 250,000 people have died in nearly five years of war in Syria, with a further 11 million people displaced by the conflict, according to the UN.
“Omran is left inside the ambulance alone, bloodied as rescuers go back into the rubble looking for anyone else who may have survived”, she continued after the video.
Doctors in Aleppo use code names for hospitals, which they say have been systematically targeted by government airstrikes. The boy is placed in a chair inside an ambulance, where he appears expressionless, as if in shock, although at one point he wipes his dust-streaked face.
He had earlier abandoned a meeting of the UN’s humanitarian task force for Syria after only eight minutes, because not a single aid convoy had been allowed to reach besieged areas since the start of the month. “And why? Because of one thing: Fighting”.
“Coming from the worldwide principles of humanitarian law and with intention to extend the scales of humanitarian mission in Aleppo, Russian Defense ministry is ready to support de Mistura’s proposal about weekly 48 hour humanitarian ceasefires to deliver the city’s citizens food, medicine and to restore vital service systems that got broken in rebels’ shellfire”, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told Russian media.
“What strikes me is we shed tears, but there are no tears here”, Bolduan said.
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Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov later announced that Moscow was “ready to implement the first 48-hour “humanitarian pause” to deliver humanitarian aid to Aleppo residents” next week.
