Syrian activists have released striking pictures of a young boy rescued from a destroyed building after an air strike in the divided second city of Aleppo.
Photos of the boy sitting dazed and bloodied in an ambulance were shared widely on social media, with many expressing shock and outrage.
He was identified as Omran Daqneesh, 5, who a local doctor said was treated for head wounds on Wednesday night.
His parents and three siblings are believed to have survived the attack.
Fighting between government and rebel forces has escalated in recent weeks in Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, leaving hundreds dead.
On Thursday morning, UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura asked for a "gesture of humanity from both sides" and urged them to agree to a 48-hour pause in the hostilities in Aleppo to allow aid deliveries to the two million people trapped there.
The pro-opposition Aleppo Media Centre said the pictures of Omran were taken in the rebel-held Qaterji district of Aleppo late on Wednesday, following air strikes that killed at least three people dead and injured 12 others.
The medic then leaves the vehicle and Omran is left sitting quietly, appearing stunned by the ordeal. He runs his hand over his face and looks at the blood before wiping it on the seat.
He is later joined by two other young children and a man injured in the air strike.
"We were passing them from one balcony to the other," Al Jazeera Mubashir journalist Mahmoud Raslan, who took the photo, told the Associated Press, adding that he had been handed three lifeless bodies before receiving the injured boy.
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