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. In July, organisations began tweeting images of children suffering the brunt of the Syrian crisis holding pictures of Pokémon figures to show that they needed to be rescued.
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According to Associate Press, the airstrike in Aleppo may have come either Syrian or Russian forces, and eight people died including five children.
The medic gave only his first name, Abo Mohammadian, apparently fearing reprisals on friends of relatives in regime-held areas if he spoke out against the government.
His words were echoed by the nurse who helped treat Omran once the injured were brought to hospital.
“It was as if he was asleep”.
Abu Rajab from the Syrian American Medical Society said: “He didn’t say anything except to ask for his parents”. None sustained major injuries.
“Ali was operated on the day of the strike. he was stable yesterday but today his health deteriorated and we lost him”, said Raslan.
In a video published by the Aleppo Media Centre, a man is seeing picking up Omran from a chaotic scene and taking him inside the ambulance, where he is seated, unblinking and dazed.
The image of Omran Daqneesh sitting bewildered and bleeding in the back of an ambulance is making global headlines.
Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in an ambulance after being pulled out of a building hit by an air strike in Aleppo, Syria.
Last year, worldwide sympathy for victims of Syria’s war was heightened by a photo of a drowned 3-year-old refugee from Syria, Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish tourist beach.
The fighting has frustrated the U.N.’s efforts to fulfill its humanitarian mandate, and the world body’s special envoy to Syria cut short a meeting Thursday of the ad hoc committee – headed by Russian Federation and the United States – that’s working to e-escalate the violence so relief can reach civilians.
There was no sense in meeting, he said, when no aid had been delivered to any besieged areas since the beginning of August.
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On Thursday morning, United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura asked for a “gesture of humanity from both sides” and urged them to agree to a 48-hour pause in the hostilities in Aleppo to allow aid deliveries to the two million people trapped there.
