One of the major battlegrounds of Syria’s devastating civil war, the city of Aleppo is split between western areas held by the Government, backed by Russian warplanes, and eastern regions held by rebels.
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“Ali was operated on the day of the strike. he was stable yesterday but today his health deteriorated and we lost him”, said Raslan.
Russian Federation has denied responsibility for Wednesday’s air strikes in the Qaterji district, which killed at least eight people, including five children.
Images of Omran shocked the world after the little boy was pulled from the rubble of his home in Aleppo following an airstrike on Wednesday night.
The Associated Press reports: “An hour after his rescue, the building the boy was in completely collapsed”.
A videographer named Mustafa al Sarouq with the Aleppo Media Center captured the video, in which we see Omran rescued from the building and looking confused as he touches his head only to get blood on his fingers.
Yesterday, we shared this video of the little blood and debris-covered boy in Aleppo, Syria, sitting in a daze in an ambulance after being pulled from the rubble after his house was levelled by an airstrike.
‘He’s (Omran) not the only one, there are lots of children who are injured or killed under the bombs and no one is focused on them, ‘ the nurse, who gave his name as Mudar, said.
Activists living in opposition areas rely on informers in the government-controlled Latakia province to warn residents of impending airstrikes.
The images of the shell-shocked Omran – sitting inside an ambulance and covered in dust, with a blood-stained face – spread quickly across social media, intensifying worldwide calls for an ceasefire in Aleppo. He has known NOTHING but war his ENTIRE life.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the United Kingdom, said more than 300 civilians have been killed in three weeks of bombing and fighting in Aleppo.
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.
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The ongoing conflict in Syria has caused the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with more than 8 million children in danger, according to UNICEF.
