5 year Old boy in the Amublance

Shocked alone not even sure what just happened, so many words in this video of a boy who survived the terror of an air strike.

In this still taken from video provided by Aleppo Media Centre, a child sits in an ambulance apparently after being pulled out of a building hit by an airstrike. 

When you hit the play but you already have a vague idea of what is happening,  It’s dark and men are frantically yelling. A young child in shorts is passed between the arms of his rescuers from a building. He’s caked in dust. The left side of his face is smeared with blood.



The child is reported to be five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, one of five children injured late on Wednesday by a military strike on the city, scene of the most decisive battle in the war.

The man who carried him in bends down to get a walkie talkie and then leaves. Another man with a camera focuses on the boy.THe boy is wearing shorts and a t-shirt with a cartoon character. His hands are placed calmly on his thighs. His right eye is wide open, the other eye less so. He looks to the doors of the ambulance, toward the voices, at that moment , he blinks and looks away.

A local doctor told the Telegraph’s Middle East correspondent that four other children, one woman and two young men were also hurt in the attack on the rebel-held Qaterji neighbourhood.

Omran was treated for his head injury at the M10 hospital and released later that night. The Telegraph reported that about 12 other children, all under the age of 15, had been treated there on Wednesday.
 Devastating pictures and footage from Syria are common now. Bloodied children are pulled out from underneath a sea of rubble. Men and women are hurried from the scene. Ambulances arrive empty and leave full. Bodies pile up. The next day brings the same thing.

But this is unique. It’s that he is alive. It’s that he is, to a point, aware. It’s his face. It cannot be unseen.