He and his family were injured when their house was destroyed in an airstrike held on Wednesday.
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Photographers snapped the picture after rescue workers pulled Omran from of a collapsing building in the city of Aleppo, in Syria, after it was hit by a Syrian government or Russian airstrike. “At least three people were killed by this bomb in this neighborhood”.
The Syrian kid was taken to a hospital known as M10, where doctors work bravely and almost nonstop to help the victims of the fighting.
The photo and video has been shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter. Most recently, the city and province of Aleppo has seen the brunt of fighting between forces of Assad’s military and rebels looking to oust the strongman. The footage shows that the innocent boy has been pulled from rubble and was loaded in an Ambulance. He lifts his hand to his head to discover he is covered in blood.
He has a head full of hair that falls into his eyes and is wearing a T-shirt and shorts, but with bare feet that barely reach the edge of the chair. This jarring photo and video, which shows the boy sitting silently in the back of ambulance as he wipes blood away from his face, has shocked the world and may lead some to ask the hard, but important question: How many child victims have there been in Aleppo?
In one sliver of good news from the region, it’s since been reported that Daqneesh was discharged from medical care after a few hours and that his parents and siblings have all survived the attack.
“We were passing them from one balcony to the other”, he told the Associated Press, saying he carried three lifeless bodies before being handed the little boy. “You can’t but help look at that and see that that’s the real face of what’s going on in Syria”, Kirby said.
“We sent the younger children immediately to the ambulance, but the 11-year-old girl waited for her mother to be rescued”.
Raslan rushed him to the ambulance, he said. He captured the injured Omran with her sister in the hospital. Another was that of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old found dead on a Turkish beach last year, having drowned during his family’s risky journey across the Mediterranean.
Aylan’s body washed off the shores in Bodrum, southern Turkey, on September 2, 2015 after a boat carrying refugees sank while reaching the Greek island of Kos. “They kill these people who are trying to rescue people”.
The city, which is split between regime and rebel control, has been at the epicentre of continued battles and bombing despite successive attempts at ceasefires.
“Not one single convoy in one month has reached any of the humanitarian besieged areas-not one single convoy”, United Nations envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, who chairs the task force and suspended Thursday’s meeting after just eight minutes, told reporters.
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Syria and Russian Federation announced in late July the opening of humanitarian corridors for people to flee Aleppo, but many residents stayed in the city, fearing the corridors were not safe.
