The haunting, heartbreaking video of Omran, posted by the Aleppo Media Center, has been circulating on social media.
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Osama Abu al-Ezz – identified the boy as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh.
Doctors say Omran had head wounds and was discharged from the M10 hospital. In the video, Omran is seen being carried away from the rubble and he then touches his face, which is covered in blood. He said he had passed along three lifeless bodies before someone handed him the wounded boy.
A Syrian boy rescued after an airstrike on Aleppo has become a symbol of the desperate situation in the city.
In Geneva, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura cut short the weekly meeting of the humanitarian taskforce headed by the United States and Russian Federation, in protest at the failure of warring parties to allow aid to reach civilians.
Three of the little boy’s siblings, ages 1, 6, and 11, were also rescued, according to NBC, along with both of his parents. None sustained major injuries, but the building collapsed shortly after the family was rescued. “But Omran was there, speechless, staring blankly, as if he did not quite understand what had happened to him”, he said by telephone.
According to several reports, at least eight other people were injured in the strikes, and there were three casualties.
“We expected the plane to arrive in Aleppo airspace in two minutes, and sure enough it did”, said Raslan.
An informant told activist networks that a jet had left a Russian airbase on Wednesday evening.
The U.N. envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said there was “no sense” in holding the meeting in light of the obstacles to delivering aid.
In Western media, the image of one of Syria’s youngest victims spurred comparison to the pictures taken of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler whose body was found on a Greek beach after the small boat he was traveling in with his family capsized.
It is understood there were two strikes, although the first did not injure anyone. “They turn the world upside down with every bombing, and we are not”, tweeted another in Arabic.
Syria’s war now involves a range of combatants including Western- and Gulf-backed rebels, jihadists, Kurds and pro-regime forces supported by Russian Federation and Iran.
“Coming from the global 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.
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Since 2012, Aleppo has been torn between rebel control in the east and government forces in the city’s west. It is now divided into rebel-held and government-held areas.
