Images of wartime are among the foremost evocative, and this image isn't any completely different - particularly because it involves a young kid.
The cherubic face with dark, unhappy eyes and the arms raised as if giving in to some unseen gunman has grabbed the imagination of social networks.
The photograph has been shared around the web widely since it absolutely was it was last Tuesday on the Twitter account of Nadia Abu Shaban, a journalist primarily based in Gaza.
Since then, it's been re tweeted quite 15,000 times. Since the image was shared on Reddit on Friday, it's received more than 5,100 upvotes and 1,600 comments.
"I'm truly weeping", "unbelievably sad", and "humanity failed", some of the comments read.
Although accusations surfaced that the image was faked, a user on image sharing web site Imgur copied the photograph to a newspaper, with the creative person named as Turkish photojournalist, Osman Sağırlı.
He has revealed that the kid is a four-year-old girl known as Hudea, who was photographed at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria in December last year.
Hudea had traveled to the camp - around 10 kilometer from the Turkish border - together with her mother and 2 siblings, some 150 kilometer from their home in Hama.
Now operating in Tanzania, Sağırlı remembers that the look of concern in very little Hudea's eyes was real.
"I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon.
"İ complete she was terrified after I took it, and looked at the picture, because she bit her lips and raised her hands.
"Normally youngsters run away, hide their faces or smile once they see a camera."
The image was first published within the Türkiye newspaper in January, wherever Sağırlı has worked for spread years, covering international war and natural disasters, and it unfold quickly on Turkish-speaking social media at the time.
The cherubic face with dark, unhappy eyes and the arms raised as if giving in to some unseen gunman has grabbed the imagination of social networks.
The photograph has been shared around the web widely since it absolutely was it was last Tuesday on the Twitter account of Nadia Abu Shaban, a journalist primarily based in Gaza.
Since then, it's been re tweeted quite 15,000 times. Since the image was shared on Reddit on Friday, it's received more than 5,100 upvotes and 1,600 comments.
"I'm truly weeping", "unbelievably sad", and "humanity failed", some of the comments read.
Although accusations surfaced that the image was faked, a user on image sharing web site Imgur copied the photograph to a newspaper, with the creative person named as Turkish photojournalist, Osman Sağırlı.
He has revealed that the kid is a four-year-old girl known as Hudea, who was photographed at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria in December last year.
Hudea had traveled to the camp - around 10 kilometer from the Turkish border - together with her mother and 2 siblings, some 150 kilometer from their home in Hama.
Now operating in Tanzania, Sağırlı remembers that the look of concern in very little Hudea's eyes was real.
"I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon.
"İ complete she was terrified after I took it, and looked at the picture, because she bit her lips and raised her hands.
"Normally youngsters run away, hide their faces or smile once they see a camera."
The image was first published within the Türkiye newspaper in January, wherever Sağırlı has worked for spread years, covering international war and natural disasters, and it unfold quickly on Turkish-speaking social media at the time.
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