Saving Syria's Children (2013)

Genre

documentary film

Elsewhere

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How it feels

Two British doctors travel to Syria to work in a hospital. The film shows their efforts to treat children wounded in the conflict. It includes footage of the aftermath of an aerial bombing on a school.

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What happens

Saving Syria's Children is a BBC Panorama documentary film with reporter Ian Pannell. The film's director, camera operator and producer was Darren Conway; the editor was Tom Giles. The documentary is an account of two doctors working in Syria, Rola Hallam, an intensive care doctor and Saleyha Ahsan, an emergency doctor from London, working for the Hand in Hand for Syria charity. During filming in Atareb hospital in Aleppo on August 26, 2013, a ZAB-500 incendiary bomb was dropped from a MiG fighter jet on a school, the Iqraa Institute, in Urum al-Kubra, Aleppo, which resulted in at least 37 civilian (mostly child) deaths, and 44 civilian injuries, as reported by NBC, documented by the Violations Documentation Center in Syria and later investigated and confirmed by Human Rights Watch. The BBC crew filmed the incident and it was included in the documentary. The aftermath of the bombing and the reactions of those affected by it were also featured. The film was screened in Australia during October 2013 on SBS's Dateline. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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