See 2 Syrian Children Who Becomes Icon of War

See 2 Syrian Children Who Becomes Icon of War
Fri Apr 3, 2015 21:08:15

2 young Syrian girl pictured surrendering to the camera mistook for a gun are not the only one who has been traumatized by the violence and war that has plagued their short life.

The young Syrian girl pictured surrendering to the camera she mistook for a gun is not the only one who has been traumatised by the violence and war that has plagued her short life.

The photographer who took the heart-breaking image in November did not grasp how terrified she was until he was editing the photographs.
It was then Rene Schulthoff realised the girl - alone and barefoot among the metal huts - was so scared of his camera that 'she raised her hands to surrender because she thought it was a weapon'.
He told MailOnline: 'I had tears in my eyes when I saw her like that on my computer. I was shocked by her reaction, the fear and seeing her crying... It is a tragedy for this young generation

Heart-breaking: Its emergence follows the now-iconic image of four-year-old Hudea who also surrendered to a camera in a Syrian camp late last year

Now four-year-old Hudea could now be in the hands of Al Qaeda after her family left the Atmeh refugee camp for Idlib.

She, her mother and three siblings had been living in the Syrian camp since the young girl's father was killed in the 2012

 

83-year-old Fatima Bakkar (pictured) is one of 17,000 Syrians who inhabits the Azraq camp which is 62 miles east of Jordan's capital Amman.

two weeks ago, they made the fateful decision to move south - only for Idlib to fall into the hands of Al Qaeda's brutal ISIS allies just this weekend.

The now-iconic picture was taken late last year and went viral when photojournalist Nadia Abu Shaban who is based in Gaza tweeted it last week.

Conflict charity War Child says thousands of children carry 'deep trauma from what they have been through inside Syria'.

This kind of experience can stay with a child and become a dominant part of their consciousness, blocking concentration and coming out as mental flashbacks so intense they induce total terror.

Its Chief Executive Rob Williams told MailOnline: 'One of these children told me that she and her mother had spend two hours picking up the body parts of her little sister who had been hit by shell fire as she played outside.

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