A Syrian man carries a child as they await treatment at a hospital in the regime-held part of Aleppo on October 13, 2016.
Syrian state television said four children were killed by rebel rocket fire on a school in a western regime-held neighbourhood. / AFP PHOTO / GEORGE OURFALIAN
Ahmed Hassoun, a Syrian refugee, holds his eighteen-month-old sick son Ali before his heart surgery at the Hammoud Universal Hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 22, 2106.
Ali is just one of dozens of refugees treated each year by Lebanon’s leading paediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi, who each week sets aside a day to operate on Syrian and Palestinian refugees.
/ AFP PHOTO / Mahmoud ZAYYAT / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SARA HUSSEIN
A Syrian boy receives treatment at a hospital in the regime-held part of Aleppo on October 13, 2016. Syrian state television said four children were killed by rebel rocket fire on a school in a western regime-held neighbourhood.
GEORGE OURFALIAN / AFP