UNICEF calls for urgent action to help over 100,000 children trapped in war-torn Aleppo

The executive director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday called for an urgent action to help more than 100,000 children who are currently “trapped in the horror” in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

The executive director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday called for an urgent action to help more than 100,000 children who are currently “trapped in the horror” in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Anthony Lake’s statement was prompted by a photo story of a five-year boy, identified as OmranDaqneesh, who was pulled from a damaged building after an airstrike hit the northern Syrian city.

Lake said “What human being can see the stunned suffering of OmranDagneesh, the small boy rescued from a destroyed building in Aleppo, Syria, and not feel an overwhelming sense of empathy?”

Lake added, “Can we not extend the same empathy to the more than 100,000 children also trapped in the horror that is Aleppo? They are all suffering things no child should suffer — or even see,” he said.

It is noteworthy that at least 51 people were killed Saturday as a result of terrorists’ shelling and airstrikes in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo,reports stated early this month.