These heartbreaking photos show how children bear the brunt of Syria's bloody civil war
The plight of Syrian children resurfaced on Thursday when photos emerged of Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old Syrian boy who was bloodied and injured after being pulled out of rubble when his neighborhood was hit by an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria on August 17.
8.4 million children, or more than 80 percent of Syria's child population, have been affected by the war, either within Syrian borders or as refugees.
Source: UNICEF
As of 2016, of the 13.5 million Syrians in need of humanitarian support, 6 million are children. Their access to vital services, like food, healthcare, counseling, and education has been decimated as a result of the war.
Source: UNOCHA
Recently, the city of Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city and a rebel stronghold, has been hit by airstrikes. More than 4,500 children have died in that city alone.
A boy whose brother was killed reacts in a rebel-held region in Syria's Idlib province. In one refugee camp, 79 percent of children had experienced the death of a family member.
3.7 million Syrian children have been born since the civil war broke out five years ago. That means 1 in 3 Syrian children has spent their entire life exposed to violence and terrorism.
Source: UNICEF
Ghazal, 4 years old, (L) and Judy, 7 years old and carrying 8-month-old Suhair, react to the destruction around them after what activists told Reuters was a shelling by President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Damascus, Syria.
FIve-year-old Sheima was hit by a stray bullet in Syria and lost both her eyes. Here, she is sitting on a hospital bed at a small clinic in Kilis, Turkey.
An injured boy receives medical treatment in a hospital after airstrikes hit the Douma neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. Civilians are finding it increasingly difficult to receive medical treatment, as healthcare facilities and workers have been repeatedly attacked.
Source: Physicians for Human Rights
In Aleppo alone, an estimated 95 percent of doctors have fled, been detained, or killed. This is largely the result of sustained attacks on healthcare facilities and professionals by the Syrian government.
Source: Physicians for Human Rights
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