Fareed Shawky

In October 2015, a video of a young Yemeni boy lying on a hospital bed being treated for injuries from flying shrapnel became a moving symbol of the human cost of the war in his country. The video shows six-year-old Fareed Shawky pleading in a soft voice to doctors. “Don’t bury me,” he says as tears stream down his face. A few days after it was taken, Fareed Shawky died. He had sustained injuries to his head and other parts of his body and was suffering from internal bleeding, after being struck with shrapnel after a missile attack by Houthi rebels while he was out playing.
Born: 2009, Taiz (Yemen)
Died: 2015, Taiz (Yemen)

In October 2015, a video of a young Yemeni boy lying on a hospital bed being treated for injuries from flying shrapnel became a moving symbol of the human cost of the war in his country. The video shows six-year-old Fareed Shawky pleading in a soft voice to doctors. “Don’t bury me,” he says as tears stream down his face. A few days after it was taken, Fareed Shawky died. He had sustained injuries to his head and other parts of his body and was suffering from internal bleeding, after being struck with shrapnel after a missile attack by Houthi rebels while he was out playing, during the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen in 2015.

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