The blank and haunting gaze of the "boy in the ambulance" rescued
from the rubble in Aleppo turned the world's eyes to the besieged city.
Omran Daqneesh, whose bloodied and dust-caked
face was captured on camera, is as old as the five-year conflict that
has ripped Syria apart. He's known nothing other than the horrors and
heartbreak of war.
Stepping outside in his hometown could instantly become a death sentence — but staying indoors isn't much safer.
While last week's photograph of the dazed Omran
refocused attention on the civil war, thousands of other children from
Aleppo find themselves in the crossfire daily — under bombardment from
Syrian government forces and Russian jets in some parts of the city,
rebel shelling in others.
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