It has been a year, one can still feel the glimpse of the poor-Syrian kid who was drenched in a bloody war, the debris covering his skin, grim eyes with the face lurking in between the chaos.
The whole world stood stunned looking at the injured Omran Daqneesh, a Syrian refugee who lost his brother. Now, after a year, the new pictures of him has emerged, the young Syrian boy who became a symbol of civilian suffering in the city of Aleppo last year, said sources.
The video of this boy went viral on several media channels, it was filmed after what activists said was an air strike on a rebel enclave that killed his brother. The online reported that on Sunday, he was photographed at his new home in the city, which is now under full government control. In interviews with pro-government journalists, Omran’s father complained that he had been used as “propaganda”.
Mohammed Daqneesh, the father of Omran, told a reporter from Iran’s Al-Alam TV that the Syrian opposition and international media had wanted to use Omran to attack President Bashar al-Assad.”They wanted to trade in his blood and published his photos,” he added.
He added that he had been sitting with his then five-year-old son when their home was hit on 17 August and that he had not heard a plane overhead. He added that Omran had suffered only minor injuries and that the blood on his son’s face had dripped on to him from one of his own wounds.
Muhammed then stated that he searched for his three other children among the rubble, “gunmen” took Omran to an ambulance in the street outside and started filming him, Daqneesh said. They then took him to hospital despite there being no need.
Video footage of Omran being carried from a damaged building and being placed on a seat in the back of an ambulance by an unarmed man who appeared to be a rescue worker was filmed by the pro-opposition Aleppo Media Centre (AMC), after what it said was a series of overnight Russian air strikes on the Qaterji district.
A doctor at the hospital where Omran was taken told the BBC at the time that he had a head wound that required stitches and was suffering from shock.
Now, after this much time, the family has somewhat recovered from the tragedy and this little boy’s amazing transformation during this period is startling!
Watch this new video of the kid in which he is seen in sound health and happy,