Make your voice heard for Syrian children

Footage of the barefooted five-year-old boy Omran Daqneesh sitting on ambulance seat, covered in dust and bleeding from a head-wound — which can be viewed on the internet — is a sickening reminder of the horror of war. The boy is so traumatised that he does not even cry when he is left alone in the ambulance.

The real tragedy is that people on the ground are dealing with such cases every day. There are around 250,000 people still in Aleppo, and a spokesperson for UNICEF estimates that about 100,000 of those are children.

International opinion was shocked and outraged last year by the photograph of the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach. There was a brief outcry.