Minutes earlier, the five-year-old had been rescued from the rubble of his home in the rebel-held Aleppo neighbourhood of Qaterji after a government airstrike. His emergence from the debris was captured by local journalists who filmed the rescue, and the ordeal of the boy and his family. The pictures were broadcast around the world on Thursday as a symbol of the unrelenting, indiscriminate suffering of Syria’s civilians. “We have been living the daily reality of children and innocent civilians being killed for five years,” he said. It’s not logical that the regime and Russian air forces can keep killing people and innocent civilians and the world stays silent.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2016 16:24 UTC