The heartbreaking image of a child injured by a bombing in Aleppo

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Through social networks , the airstrike was reported in a controlled militants fighting against the dictator Bashar al Assad and shared a shooting that shocked the world neighborhood.

" A doctor in Aleppo just sent me a picture of a bewildered boy who survived an air strike. His name is Omran Daqneesh and has 5 years," said Raf Sanchez , correspondent for the British newspaper The Telegraph in the Middle East, through its twitter account.

Sanchez added that the little one was hurt in the neighborhood Qaterji the Syrian city and four other children and 3 adults were also attended by emergency services after being discovered in the rubble.


A chain filming Aleppo Media Center shows how a team member rescue him away from the collapsed building and sits on the back of an ambulance. The child does not cry , but the face is touched and sees his hand full of blood.

Omran was taken to hospital M10 , which has also been repeatedly hit by airstrikes . The doctors treated his injury in the head and removed the dust from his eyes . He was discharged hours later.

Ruins in Aleppo ( AFP )

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 33 civilians and 19 rebels were killed in aerial bombing and firing missiles on Tuesday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, in the context of the struggle between opposing factions and the regime of Bashar al Assad.

The city of Aleppo is the dispute forces of Damascus and the rebels since the summer of 2012, when insurgents conquered large areas of the city, the second of Syria and one of the most affected by the conflict that began in March 2011 .

The main battlefronts today are located on the outskirts of the industrial area of Al Ramusa and outside the districts of Al Zahra, Al Yaberiya and Al Sulaimaniyah in the north, where the roads supplies the opposition and the regime, respectively.

Violence and attempts to encircle rival areas are aggravating the humanitarian situation, according to reports from the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in recent days.

The UN commission investigating the crimes committed in more than five years of war in Syria said that some 100,000 children who are in the opposition areas of eastern Aleppo may become victims of the strategy used in the past by the regime "surrender or die."

For its part, the ICRC President Peter Maurer, denounced two days in Aleppo is taking "one of the most devastating urban conflicts of modern times' ago and asked the opposing sides to allow access of humanitarian aid to all parts of the city.