He suffered head wounds, but was eventually discharged from the hospital.
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The American roadmap to end the war includes a national ceasefire, opening up of humanitarian aid, and the resumption of political negotiations between the Syrian regime and opposition in Geneva. The footage shows the little boy being pulled from rubble and loaded into an ambulance.
He sat glassy eyed with shock while blood trickled down an open wound on his face while his feet barely extended beyond the cushion of the ambulance backseat where he was placed by rescue workers.
But Omran has had a lucky escape – he appears to have been one of the first pulled out of the rubble before his parents, the Aleppo Media Center says.
The Aleppo Media Centre, a network of activists in the divided northern city, confirmed Ali’s death in a video on Saturday.
A nurse who treated Omran said, “He was in a daze”. He said that, “We were passing them from one balcony to the other”.
“I’ve taken a lot of pictures of children killed or wounded in the strikes that rain down daily”, Rslan told AFP by telephone. According to CNN, he was silent during the entire incident.
Barnard posted the above photo of Omran after he was cleaned up at the hospital.
The powerful imagery reverberated across social media, drawing to mind the anguished global response to the photos of Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy whose body was found on a Turkish beach and came to represent the horrific toll of Syria’s civil war.
Fighting between the two groups has intensified since mid-July, raising fears for the safety of an estimated 1.5 million civilians still in the city.
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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. On Thursday morning, United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura asked for a “gesture of humanity from both sides” in the form of a 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo so aid workers could help the two million people still in the city, according to the BBC. Make this article viral through Hike, Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Stumble Upon, Pinterest, WeChat, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and SumoMe.
