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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 03:06 PM Aug 2016

Brother of Syrian boy pulled from Aleppo rubble dies in hospital

Source: The Observer

Brother of Syrian boy pulled from Aleppo rubble dies in hospital

10-year-old Ali Daqneesh, brother of Omran, died from his
injuries three days after airstrike as frustration grows over
civilian suffering


Lin Jenkins and Emma Graham-Harrison
Saturday 20 August 2016 19.12 BST

The airstrike that destroyed the home of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh who was photographed after being pulled from the rubble has claimed the life of his brother.

Ali, 10, was not with his younger brother at home but playing with friends out in the street when the bomb fell on Wednesday. While his family sustained minor injuries when their home collapsed he was more seriously hurt in the blast.

It emerged today that he had died from his injuries in hospital. The boys’ father received mourners at his temporary home after news broke of the death.

Kenan Rahmani, a Syrian activist wrote online: “Omran became the ‘global symbol of Aleppo’s suffering’ but to most people he is just that – a symbol. Ali is the reality: that no story in Syria has a happy ending.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/20/syria-boy-brother-aleppo-ali-daqneesh-omran-dies
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Brother of Syrian boy pulled from Aleppo rubble dies in hospital (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2016 OP
Thanks for posting this, Eugene. "There is growing frustration in rebel-held Aleppo that grief pampango Aug 2016 #1

pampango

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1. Thanks for posting this, Eugene. "There is growing frustration in rebel-held Aleppo that grief
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 04:42 PM
Aug 2016

at the plight of Omran has not been accompanied by rage at those who dropped the bomb."

The image brought renewed global focus to the suffering of civilians in the eastern part of Syria’s largest city, living under near-siege conditions and a constant bombardment of barrel bombs dropped from government aircraft and more targeted Russian airstrikes.

Civilian casualties from Russian bombings have overtaken civilian deaths at the hands of Isis for the first time, the activist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said last week.

By ignoring the political and military context of Omran’s plight, they are cheapening his suffering and that of all the people who have chosen to stay on in opposition-held areas of Aleppo, or have not had an opportunity to leave.

“We don’t want the world to know we are dying as civilians here, that is not enough. We want the world to know who is killing us, who is targeting us,” said an English-language professor at the university, whose six-month-old daughter was born in one of the city’s few remaining hospitals. “If people in Britain and United States know that Russia and Assad are doing this, they will help us, they will do something with their government to help us. But if they don’t know, what kind of help can we get?”
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