Who is the Bloodied Aleppo Boy? Story behind him



His name is Omran Daqneesh. The image of him, bloodied and covered with dust, sitting silently in an ambulance awaiting help, is another stark reminder of the toll of the war in Syria.




He is young one witness puts him at five years old, as old as the Syrian war itself. But his chubby arms and legs and the way he clings to the man who pulled him from the rubble of his bombed-out home suggest he is younger, maybe still a toddler.
He lived with his mother, father, brother and sister in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
He and his family were injured when their house was destroyed by an airstrike Wednesday 17 August 2016. Miraculously, everyone in his immediate family survived. Activists blame the Syrian regime and Russia for the bombings.
Aleppo, in northern Syria, has been besieged for years during that country's civil war. Thousands of people have been killed there, including 4,500 children, and many lives have been upended.

Some clicks on his situation till coming to Ambulance.






















One boy's story

The haunting, heartbreaking video of Omran, posted by the Aleppo Media Center, has been circulating on social media.
It shows a civil defense worker carrying the little boy to an ambulance. His cartoon character T-shirt is covered in dust, the left side of his face is bloody. He is silent despite the cacophony around him.
He was not crying at any point during the rescue.
"He was in extreme shock," according to a spokesman for the Aleppo Media Center, an activist group.
He looks dazed as he sits on the vehicle's orange seat, his hands on his lap, as he waits to be treated, as he waits for somebody to help him.
He raises his left hand to his eye and feels the area around his temple as if he has been hit there. He wipes his face and looks down at the blood.
But Omran has had a lucky escape he appears to have been one of the first pulled out of the rubble before his parents, the Aleppo Media Center says.





"The picture describes two scenes from different time periods, but the same war and struggle of Syrian people and refugees of war all over the world,"
"Omran who was pulled from under the ruins after a Russian air strike in Aleppo and also of Alan who drowned in the Mediterranean."
Asked what inspired him to draw the pictures, Albaih said: "My inspiration came from the fact that I consider myself a refugee. My children are within the same age and could also be in the same situation."


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