Omran’s home had been hit by a military airstrike on his neighbourhood in Aleppo, Qaterji, which is currently under rebel control.
Images of the child sitting in the back of an ambulance – dazed, wounded and covered in dust – have put a face to the country’s seemingly-relentless civil war.
At just five years old, he’s as old as the conflict itself.
In a video filmed and circulated by the Aleppo Media Centre, Omran sits shocked and confused by what’s happened and all the cameras being pointed at him.
