He is Omran Daqneesh, who is 5-years-old child. As the camera follows him, a rescuer in a yellow vest places Omran inside a brightly lighted ambulance, settling him carefully upright in a bright-orange seat before hurrying off to help more wounded. The Mahmoud Raslan who was a Photojournalist took the photos of Omran and said that he has to pass through three died bodies before reaching to omran.
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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.
Aleppo Media Center confirmed that 10-year-old Ali Daqneesh had died on Saturday from the airstrike and reported his mother still remains in critical condition.
Omran’s three siblings, aged one, six and 11 all survived the airstrike on their home, along with their mum and dad.
The fighting has frustrated the UN’s efforts to fulfil its humanitarian mandate, and the world body’s special envoy to Syria cut short a meeting Thursday of the ad hoc committee – chaired by Russian Federation and the USA – tasked with deescalating the violence so that relief can reach beleaguered civilians.
Aleppo has been the scene of intense fighting since July 31, when the “Army of Conquest” alliance of rebels and jihadists launched a major offensive to break a regime siege of opposition-controlled districts.
In an interview with Sky News, Ammar Hammami, said that a great many children and their families had been harmed by the ongoing violence in Syria’s once vibrant second city.
There was no sense in meeting, he said, when no aid had been delivered to any besieged areas since the beginning of August.
Redur Khalil, a spokesman for the main Kurdish fighting force, says in a statement that Thursday’s bombs struck residential areas and positions belonging to the Kurdish police force in the northern city of Hassakeh.
More than 290,000 people have been killed and more than half the population has been displaced since Syria s conflict erupted in March 2011 with anti-government protests that escalated into a brutal multi-front war.
Activists said that multiple airstrikes targeted the opposition-held neighborhood of al-Qaterji late Wednesday evening.
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Further, the note says that 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.
