"That photo has reached the world": said the mother of Mustafa, a 5-year-old Syrian child born without arms and legs, immortalized smiling with his father, mutilated in one leg, in a shot that symbolizes the tragedies of the conflict in Syria .
The photograph, by the Turkish artist Mehmet Aslan, won the Siena international photo awards (Sipa) 2021.
"We have been trying to speak up for years to help my son with the treatments, we would do anything to give him a better life," Ms. Zeinab told The Washington Post.
The child's malformation is a consequence of the mother's taking drugs, suffering from nerve gas.
The image of Aslan comes from the district of Reyhanli, in the Turkish province of Hatay located on the border with Syria.
It portrays a man without a leg, lost due to a bomb, as he takes in his arms his son born without lower and upper limbs as a result of a malformation caused by the assumption of drugs by the mother affected, during the war, also by gas nerve.
The photo was selected by the jury from among tens of thousands of images submitted by photographers from 163 countries.
"It is painful to have to once again comment on a photo about a tragedy that is not over: the war in Syria. That shot is going around the world, but we hope not to be faced with yet another proof of intermittent indignation. the dramatic one of Aylan, we hope that this photo will awaken the consciences of world leaders ".
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ndrea Iacomini, spokesman for Unicef Italia, commenting on Aslan's shot with ANSA.
"The drama in the drama are children with severe disabilities, who represent the weakest party in the conflicts," adds Iacomini.