cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1121548
Archived version: https://archive.ph/7YtiD
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230806100722/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66398976
This is the best summary I could come up with:
When Afraa was found in the rubble of a collapsed building in Syria, her umbilical cord was still attached to her mother, who had died just after giving birth.
Baby Afraa was the only member of her immediate family to survive - her father, Abu Rudaina, and her four siblings died, along with her mother.
When Afraa was in hospital, thousands of people around the world offered to adopt her, so Khalil and his wife Hala had to prove they really were related before they were allowed to take care of her.
Eventually, the DNA results confirmed Hala was a blood relative - the sister of Afraa’s father - and the little girl was discharged from hospital.
We buried them the next day in a nearby village called Hajj Iskandar, where the Civil Defence had dug mass graves."
Delivering aid to the four million people living in this rebel-held area of Syria is extremely difficult, where most of the residents have already been displaced by the country’s 12-year war.
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Them chubby cheeks saved her.
For real, kids got a whole winter stuffed in those cheeks.