The Daqneesh family, two parents and four children, were in their home in the Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo when their apartment building was hit during an airstrike.
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The Aleppo Media Centre, a network of activists in the divided northern city, confirmed Ali’s death in a video on Saturday.
NBC reports Daqneesh was the older brother of OmranDaqneesh, the five-year-old subject of a viral, heartbreaking photograph taken by Al Jazeera photojournalist MahmoudRaslan that depicted a bloody and dusty Omran sitting inside an ambulance shortly after the airstrike.
But after the image emerged of little Omran, a boy from Aleppo, Syria, Russia seems to have made a move to head off the growing condemnation of its bombing campaigns.
Omran has since been released from the hospital.
‘I want to send a message to the world that Omran isn’t the first child to be injured because of Russian airstrikes on Aleppo.
The video and pictures were widely circulated online and covered in the media, refocusing public opinion on Syria’s five-year-old civil war and the plight of civilians, particularly in Aleppo. The footage shows that the innocent boy has been pulled from rubble and was loaded in an Ambulance.
According to CNN, more than 300 people have been killed in Aleppo in the last two weeks.
International rights group Amnesty International has previously accused both Russian Federation and the government of President Bashar al-Assad of hitting residential areas and appearing to deliberately target hospitals. Al Jhazeera journalist Mahmoud Raslan, who took the photo of Omran, was one of a team of rescue crews and journalists who lifted the family from the rubble.
Omran was rescued from the remains of a building on Wednesday night, along with his three siblings, aged one, six and 11, and his mother and father.
“As doctors, our hearts are full of compassion when we see wounded children”, Mohammad said.
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Last year, worldwide sympathy for victims of Syria’s war was heightened by a photo of a drowned 3-year-old refugee from Syria, Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish tourist beach.
