Voices on ... the face of war

“This picture of a wounded Syrian boy captures just a fragment of the horrors of Aleppo.”

A headline in The Telegraph about Omran Daqneesh, 5, rescued after an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria

“He arrived in total shock, total bewilderment at what happened. He had been sitting safely in his home, perhaps asleep. And the house was brought down on top of him.”

Dr Mohammad, who treated Omran

“I’ve seen so many children rescued out of the rubble but this child, with his innocence, he had no clue what was going on. He put his hand on his face and saw blood.”

Journalist Mustafa al-Sarout, who filmed the rescue

“The tears started to drop as I took the photo. It is not the first time I’ve cried. I have cried many times while filming traumatised children. I always cry. Omran affected me because he was silent. He didn’t cry. He didn’t say a word.”

Photographer Mahmoud Raslan

“To those who know about the traumas of war it is the ‘thousandyard stare’ – that blank look from unfocused eyes that have seen too much but cannot comprehend the horror.”

Tony Rennell & Peter Oborne, Daily Mail