The Heart of Aleppo by Ammar Habib7/2/2023 They are children, separated from their parents, who must fear multiple, murderous factions and their own government, kids who days ago were living normal teenage lives, as any teenager in any country. Strangers sacrifice their lives strangers betray them strangers ask for help…evoking survival instincts and humanity’s courage in the darkest hours. The teenagers discover that nowhere is safe, as they are besieged repeatedly by rebels, and learn that the military cannot be trusted-they are alone. Thirteen-year-old Zaid and his friends, siblings Fatima and Salman, leave innocence behind when their parents send them away at rumors of rebel attacks. One of the boys, a 13-year-old, was killed after having been brutally tortured.”. “That March, peaceful protests erupted in Syria as well, after 15 boys were detained and tortured for writing graffiti in support of the Arab Spring. Photos of Khatib are distributed at protests, and the images become a potent symbol of the regime’s brutality.”– Protesters are galvanized by newly published images of the mutilated body of Hamza Ali al-Khatib, a 13-year-old boy from Darʿā who was tortured to death while in police custody.
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