Ali Daqneesh, 10, was wounded in Wednesday’s (Aug 17) air strike, according to British-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and a witness who was present at the time of the death along with the boys’ father.
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Syrian activists released footage showing Omran Daqneesh, five, being rescued from a partially-destroyed building after the airstrike late Wednesday.
In that moment of seeing Omran, so many of us were reminded of the image of another Syrian little boy, Aylan Kurdi, who wasn’t lucky.
The image of the 5-year old stunned boy, sitting in an ambulance caked with dust and with blood on his face, captured the horror that has beset the war-torn city.
Ali was playing on the street when the airstrike occurred, which is probably why his injuries were so severe, said UK Telegraph.
Overall, at least eight people died in the air strike, among them five children, said The Independent.
More than 290,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in Syria’s civil war, which began in 2011. Since the image’s release, the photo has reverberated around the globe, much like that of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, whose body washed ashore on a Turkish beach a year ago. CNN says his mother was still in critical condition as of August 20, and the family is still in Aleppo. Omran’s home city Aleppo has been divided by government control in the west and opposition fighters in the east since 2012.
The elder brother of Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy whose photograph triggered a worldwide wave of sympathy after he was pulled from the rubble of an apartment block, died of his injuries yesterday.
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Aisha, a mother of two, who fled after barrel bombings but still lives in the countryside of the embattled city, said: “All Syrians, and me, thank the world for their feelings of sorrow, but why don’t you help us to find peace?”
