Alone in an ambulance, the boy -identified by doctors as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh – tries to wipe the blood off his head, unaware of the injury he has sustained.
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The strike occurred during the sunset call to prayer, around 7:20 p.m, said Raslan, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubashir.
Those who want to help children like Omran can donate to and find more information from organizations like the International Rescue Committee, SOS Children’s Villages International and UNICEF.
The U.N. envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said there was “no sense” in holding the meeting in light of the obstacles to delivering aid. “They maybe lost their lives or limbs, or many of them became paralysed”, he said.
The Russian Defence Ministry spokesman said that Russia’s other “condition” for implementing the temporary cease-fire was that separate routes would be established for United Nations convoys to bring aid to rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo and to the western side held by the government.
An hour after his rescue, the badly damaged building the boy was in collapsed.
The image of the 4-year-old Syrian child Omran that drew a lot of global attention to the plight of strife-torn Syria.
A photo and video of him looking dazed in the ambulance quickly went viral across the world on Wednesday, many calling him an iconic face of violence resulting from the Syrian war.
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.
In protest at the failure of warring parties to allow aid to reach civilians, de Mistura cut short the weekly meeting of the Geneva-based humanitarian taskforce, which is headed by the United States and Russian Federation. They show us the places where bombs were targeted and the tragedy behind the families left over after this incident.
The United States and Russian Federation, which head a separate global task force trying to implement a cease-fire, have been negotiating for months as the carnage has increased. “Once, there were three children – both their parents had died – and they were just standing in front of us”.
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Doctors in Aleppo call hospitals by code names to avoid any infiltration by security forces in their medical network and safeguard the ambulances used to transport the patients. But opposition activists and militant websites said Monday that the insurgents retreated following a massive government counterattack.
