Sometimes, it takes putting a face on a conflict to make it real for people – and to inspire them to help.
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“We urge parties to the conflict to immediately allow safe and protected access for technicians to conduct urgent repairs to the electricity and water networks so that water is restored across the city”, Bouleriac said. This, again, may ultimately be irrelevant, as Nusra has made no comments at all on the proposal and has largely ignored previous truces.
While reporting on the heartbreaking footage of Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy who survived a military airstrike in Aleppo, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan lost her composure and broke down on air.
Simultaneously, U.N. envoys and other aid workers have difficulty reaching these areas, which they say have not received deliveries in the past month.
“That little boy has never had a day in his life where there hasn’t been war, death, destruction, poverty in his own country”, State Department spokesman John Kirby said at a press briefing.
Such scenes are commonplace in Aleppo, where 233 civilians were killed in indiscriminate gunfire between rebels and government forces in the first two weeks of August alone, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.
Kirby, whose boss John Kerry has for months attempted to forge a pathway with Russian Federation to end the war, said Thursday that “we all have to pull together to try to reach a better outcome”.
Despite the worldwide outcry, Dr. Abu Al-Baraa said nothing would change. “Sometimes, you have to cry”. The little Omran was rescued with three siblings and his parents. “Once he saw them, he started crying”, hospital sources reportedly said.
“We expected the plane to arrive in Aleppo airspace in two minutes, and sure enough it did”, Raslan said.
Save The Children said its partners have had ambulances hit by air strikes, on top of the numerous medical facilities damaged and destroyed.
The battle for Syria’s second city has killed 333 civilians since 31 July, when rebels launched a major push to break a government siege of districts under their control.
Syria’s Aleppo city has been under constant airstrikes. Rebels captured the eastern part of the city in 2012 and have been locked in a brutal stalemate with government forces since then.
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Deir Ezzor, which is partially controlled by the Islamic State group, has continued to receive aid over the last month through World Food Programme air drops, de Mistura said.
