A symbolic image, which does not show war, but tells of its horror. It is the image of Omran Daqneesh, a 5 year old boy from Aleppo, sitting inside an ambulance. The child is covered in dirt, debris and blood. More than dirty, he is completely covered in it. He was pulled alive from the rubble after a bombing and then sat there in an orange ambulance seat.
The image is taken from a video, but Omran's shot went around the world. The amazed expression on his face, the vague and vaguely incredulous little eyes, sunken behind a layer of dirt and lost in the void, fixed on a blind spot, are for many the most effective symbol for describing the situation in Aleppo and, more generally , of all Syria, literally torn apart by the clash between the army and rebel groups.
The Telegraph's Middle East correspondent Raf Sanchez first tweeted Omran's image. Since then, Omran's shot has been taken and shared by thousands of users and by the major newspapers in the world. The boy, who was injured during an air raid in Qaterji, a district of Alepp, is now doing well: he was treated for a head wound at Aleppo's M10 hospital and discharged that same night.
