He was badly wounded in the same bombardment as Omran on August 17 in Aleppo,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Omran, his siblings and parents were all plucked from the rubble wounded, but alive, following Wednesday’s bombing on the Qaterji neighborhood in rebel-held east Aleppo. The Aleppo Media Centre, a network of activists in the divided northern city, confirmed Ali’s death in a video on Saturday. Omran’s home city Aleppo has been divided by government control in the west and opposition fighters in the east since 2012. Of the estimated 250,000 people still living in the eastern parts of the city, 100,000 are children, according to the UN’s children agency UNICEF.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 21, 2016 00:22 UTC