Images and video, filmed by the Aleppo Media Center anti-government activist group, of ash-covered 5-year-old Omar Daqneesh pulled from the rubble in Qaterji have gained wide circulation on social media and news outlets.
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His older brother, Ali, 10, has died from injuries sustained in the same air strike that reduced much of their neighbourhood, in the Syrian city of Aleppo, to rubble earlier this week.
The Russian military said Thursday it was ready to back a United Nations call for weekly cease-fires for Syria’s contested city of Aleppo, as haunting footage of a young boy’s rescue from the aftermath of an airstrike shook global media.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on August 19 that Russian warplanes “never work on targets in civilian areas”.
According to a nurse who treated the courageous boy, he did not shed a single drop of tear until he saw his parents.
“At least three people were killed in the bombing in his neighborhood”.
Ali’s death came a day after Unicef’s executive director, Anthony Lake, called on the global community to “extend the same empathy to the more than 100,000 children also trapped in the horror that is Aleppo”.
“As doctors, our hearts are full of compassion when we see wounded children”, Mohammad said. The footage shows Omran being rescued and taken in to ambulance.
“Usually when a child gets out of an airstrike they’re crying, their voice fills up everything but this child didn’t say a thing”.
No one was injured in the first strike, he said.
Three to six wounded children arrive at the hospital every day, Mohammad said.
Video of a rescue worker carrying Omran from the faltering building and placing him in the back of the ambulance went viral shortly after the blast. In total, eight people died in the airstrike, including children.
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The boys’ father confirmed that his older son Ali succumbed to his injuries in a hospital, activists in Aleppo said. One of those killed is believed to be a relative of Omran’s family. “There was no brain damage, and he was discharged after two hours”.
