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Ameer Alhalbi
Freelance photographer in Aleppo, Syria.

A day of hell in Aleppo

Monday 2 May 2016

Aleppo, Syria, May 2, 2016 -- I honestly think that the war in Syria will never end. I have been photographing the war in my native Aleppo for three years now. Last Thursday was one of the most hellish days that my city has endured.

I took the images of the toddler rescue in the Al-Kalasa residential district, controlled by the rebels and besieged by regime forces. When the air raid struck, I was some hundred meters away, with the civil defense vehicles. I ran toward the point of impact to shoot with my camera.

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