However, on the same day, the jihadists shelled civilians in western Aleppo and injured and killed dozens of civilians.
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On Friday morning, Misty Buswell, Middle East regional director of Save the Children, spoke to CNN Philippines about the situation in Syria and how children bear the brunt of the war. In the month of July, Revolutionary Forces of Syria (RFS) posted images of children from Syria holding Pokemon drawings in their hands, asking the world to save them.
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Omran Daqneesh, a boy covered in dust and blood, was rescued from the rubble of a building which was bombed in an airstrike in the war-hit country, Syria.
Video of children being pulled from the rubble of a building hit by air strikes in Aleppo has been widely circulated on social media, causing upset and condemnation over the harrowing reality of Syria’s five-year war. Pale, barefoot and bloodied, he is like a tiny ghost against the vivid orange of the ambulance seat.
Time and time again, the global media has failed to put the suffering of Syrian people into context.
The image of Omran, his face a mask of blood and dust and his eyes full of bewilderment, has had a similar impact this week.
In 1984, one of the most renowned Indian photojournalists Raghu Rai went to cover the aftermath of Bhopal gas Tragedy.
Obama and the United States military however have been determined not to get pulled into Syria’s chaotic civil war.
Ancient Aleppo, one of the oldest and most handsome cities in the world, is now a killing ground with ever-increasing levels of violence as rebel commanders try to break out of a government siege which has slowly been tightening its grip.
In the case of Alan, the Syrian toddler who washed up on a beach after his family tried to reach Europe on a smuggler’s boat, the child was dead.
Mr. Ahmad, the nurse, said three other children had been hospitalized with Omran, along with a 22-year-old man who had been stuck under rubble for eight hours.
According to the Save the Children charity, children represent 35 percent of victims in the besieged northern city of Aleppo.
United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura, while talking to reporters in Geneva said, “In Syria, what we are hearing and seeing is only fighting, offensives, counter-offensives, rockets, barrel bombs, mortars, hellfire cannons, napalm, chlorine, snipers, airstrikes, suicide bombers”. A four year old boy sitting in the back of an ambulance, after a surviving an air strike in his Syrian neighborhood. These policies have directly caused the deaths of thousands of people who have drowned or suffocated in the backs of lorries, as they try to escape to a life that is not only about avoiding death.
Some 1.5 to 2 million people still remain in Aleppo, once considered Syria’s largest city.
However, on the other hand, staying on is also not a safe choice, as people are subjected to relentless bombings and airstrikes putting their lives and those of their children in constant danger. “Because of one thing: fighting”.
Mistura has attemped to increase pressure on the U.S. and Russian Federation, the task force’s co-chairs, to help produce a 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo.
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The UN envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said there was “no sense” in holding the meeting in light of the obstacles to delivering aid.
