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Syria conflict: Image of injured boy in Aleppo draws outrage Syria conflict: Image of injured boy in Aleppo draws outrage
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Syrian activists have released striking pictures of a young boy rescued from a destroyed building after an air strike in the divided second city of Aleppo.Syrian activists have released striking pictures of a young boy rescued from a destroyed building after an air strike in the divided second city of Aleppo.
Video and photos of the boy sitting dazed and bloodied in an ambulance were shared widely on social media, with many expressing shock and outrage.Video and photos of the boy sitting dazed and bloodied in an ambulance were shared widely on social media, with many expressing shock and outrage.
A doctor identified him as Omran Daqneesh, 5, who they said was treated for head wounds on Wednesday night. He was identified as Omran Daqneesh, 5, who a local doctor said was treated for head wounds on Wednesday night.
It was not immediately clear what happened to the rest of his family. His parents and three siblings are believed to have survived the attack.
Fighting between Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, and rebels has escalated in Aleppo in recent weeks, reportedly leaving hundreds of people dead. Fighting between government and rebel forces has escalated in recent weeks in Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, leaving hundreds dead.
The pro-opposition Aleppo Media Centre said the pictures of the boy were taken in the rebel-held Qaterji district of Aleppo on Wednesday, after air strikes that left three people dead and 12 injured. On Thursday morning, UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura asked for a "gesture of humanity from both sides" and urged them to agree to a 48-hour pause in the hostilities in Aleppo to allow aid deliveries to the two million people trapped there.
He had earlier abandoned a meeting of the UN's humanitarian task force for Syria after only eight minutes, because not a single aid convoy had been allowed to reach besieged areas over the past month.
The pro-opposition Aleppo Media Centre said the pictures of Omran were taken in the rebel-held Qaterji district of Aleppo late on Wednesday, following air strikes that killed at least three people dead and injured 12 others.
The video shows the boy being carried out of a damaged building by a medic and then placed on a seat in the back of an ambulance, covered in dust and with a blood-covered face.The video shows the boy being carried out of a damaged building by a medic and then placed on a seat in the back of an ambulance, covered in dust and with a blood-covered face.
The medic then leaves the vehicle and the boy is left sitting quietly, appearing stunned by the ordeal. He runs his hand over his face and looks at the blood before wiping it on the seat. The medic then leaves the vehicle and Omran is left sitting quietly, appearing stunned by the ordeal. He runs his hand over his face and looks at the blood before wiping it on the seat.
He is later joined by two other young children and a man injured in the air strike.He is later joined by two other young children and a man injured in the air strike.
A doctor in Aleppo, Osama Abu al-Ezz, told the Associated Press that the boy in the ambulance was brought to a hospital known as M10 following the attack on Qaterji with head wounds, but no brain injury, and was later discharged. "We were passing them from one balcony to the other," Al Jazeera Mubashir journalist Mahmoud Raslan, who took the photo, told the Associated Press, adding that he had been handed three lifeless bodies before receiving the injured boy.
Raf Sanchez of the Daily Telegraph also tweeted a photo showing the boy lying down on a stretcher with a bandage covering his left eye. Diplomacy sidelined - Imogen Foulkes, BBC News, Geneva
"The stunned, bloodied face of a child survivor sums up the horror of Aleppo," wrote Adib Shishakly, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council. Staffan de Mistura is, even in the face of the enormous diplomatic challenge of bringing peace to Syria, normally a genial man. Not on Thursday.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, also said three people were killed in the air strike and reported that Russian warplanes had fired a "vacuum missile", an apparent reference to fuel-air explosive munitions. He was visibly angry as he described how he had suspended the humanitarian task force after just eight minutes. There was no sense in meeting, he said, when no aid had been delivered to any besieged areas for a month. This is despite weeks of pleas from senior aid officials.
The move by Mr de Mistura may be seen as measure of last resort. Since no negotiations are taking place, the UN may be hoping to shame the warring parties - and their backers like the United States and Russia - into, at the very least, a pause in fighting to allow aid in. But as the battle for Aleppo rages, the UN's diplomacy in Syria looks increasingly sidelined.
Omran was pulled from the remains of a destroyed block of flats along with his parents and three siblings, aged one, six and 11, according to Raslan. None sustained major injuries.
"We sent the younger children immediately to the ambulance, but the 11-year-old girl waited for her mother to be rescued. Her ankle was pinned beneath the rubble," Raslan said.
A doctor in Aleppo, Osama Abu al-Ezz, told AP that Omran was brought to a hospital known as M10 following the attack on Qaterji with head wounds and was later discharged.
"The stunned, bloodied face of a child survivor sums up the horror of Aleppo," tweeted Adib Shishakly, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council.
Wadah Khanfar, co-founder the Sharq Forum and former head of the Al Jazeera network, wrote: "Photographing the depth of our weakness #Aleppo."
Syrian journalist Ahmad Primo meanwhile superimposed a photo of the boy on another showing Syria's seat at the Arab League's headquarters. "Sorry Arab world! #Aleppo," he read the caption.
More than 250,000 people have died in almost five years of war in Syria, with a further 11 million people displaced by the conflict, according to the UN.