The older brother of the Syrian boy whose bloodied, tired face has become a symbol of the nation’s brutal civil war has died.
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Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits inside an ambulance after he was rescued following an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria on August 17, 2016.
Omran, a bloodied Syrian boy in Aleppo, has miraculously survived an airstrike that destroyed his house and obliterated his entire neighborhood last Wednesday. Ali had an internal bleeding and organ damages, doctors told the witness.
Raslan’s footage of Omran, dazed and covered with dust and blood in the back of an ambulance after an air strike, made headlines across the world.
Ali Daqneesh, 10, was wounded in the air strike on Wednesday alongside his three siblings, his mother and his father.
A video of Omran being pulled from the remains of their family home has brought world-wide attention to the ongoing war in Syria.
A photo circulating online showed a wounded and unconscious Ali Daqneesh hooked up to a hospital ventilator.
Fighting and air strikes in and around Aleppo have killed some 448 civilians this month, SOHR reported.
Regime warplanes, backed by Russia’s air force since September 2015, bombard the eastern districts while rebel groups fire rockets into the west.
Ali’s death came a day after Unicef’s executive director, Anthony Lake, called on the worldwide community to “extend the same empathy to the more than 100,000 children also trapped in the horror that is Aleppo”.
On Friday, the World Food Program described the situation in besieged areas as “nightmarish” amid growing global concern over the humanitarian cost of the war in Syria.
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Although numerous attempts to bring relief to the city in the past have failed, Russian Federation said on Thursday that it is ready to support a United Nations proposal for weekly 48-hour ceasefires to ensure aid deliveries to the city, according to the foreign ministry.
