Near my grandson’s age. The images have left the whole word in despair. The hashtag “KiyiyaVuranInsanlik” – “humanity washed ashore” – had became the top trending topic on Twitter after the picture was retweeted heavily.
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The video and pictures were widely circulated online and in the media, refocusing public opinion on Syria’s five-year-old civil war and the plight of civilians, particularly in Aleppo. In September of past year, it was the heartbreaking photo of young Alan Kurdi washing up on the shore near Turkey.
His younger brother, five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, was pictured in the back of an ambulance after being pulled from the rubble, with an expression of incomprehension on his dust and blood-caked face. And who could blame her.
Ali Daqneesh, 9, was outside the family’s flat in the northern city of Aleppo when the building was hit on Wednesday. They had been living in the district of Qaterji, which is held by anti-government rebels. But once in a while a striking, brutal image reminds all of the world outside of the USA presidential race and beyond the country’s border.
“You don’t have to be a dad, but I am”.
The American roadmap to end the war includes a national ceasefire, opening up of humanitarian aid, and the resumption of political negotiations between the Syrian regime and opposition in Geneva. “There were so many people wounded, maybe 13 or 14 there”.
On Saturday, his older brother died from injuries sustained during the attack, becoming a symbol himself of the estimated more than 10,000 children killed in the war. The boy sits alone, stunned, before two more children are brought into the vehicle. “He put his hand on his face and saw blood”.
The nurse who treated the boy said he did not cry until he saw his mother and father who joined him at the hospital shortly after his arrival.
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Nearly a year after the world was haunted by the image of the three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, another image of a young boy has captured the horror of the ongoing war in Syria.
