It’s a tragedy that this innocent boy has died of pneumonia. It really is because he was effectively collateral damage of this whole IS situation. All of her children were.
But I’m not liking a few of these posts on this thread. One being was this baby even real? Did he exist? Was he someone else’s baby?
There have been healthcare professionals, camp officials and journalists around her. Two of which would have seen her daily. She would have been triaged whilst clearly pregnant. They would have openly said that she wasn’t pregnant just like they’ve openly confirmed his death. Journalist have seen him even if we get the cut version of the interview. There are pictures of this baby even if it was uncovered, people would still say she was parading her baby.
Secondly, it’s not fair to say she doesn’t look malnourished especially as her two other babies died of similar circumstances. One was ill and that illness was aggravated by malnutrition. The other was also ill. These illnesses are likely to be a product of their environment. Dusty, sandy and unsanitary without proper medical resources. Yes, IS had medical centres and what not but these two deaths were after when all HCPs left to or their resources depleted. She was in the camp for two weeks prior to her discovery by the Times journo. She’d quite likely have been fed carby calorific food as she was pregnant and then breastfeeding.
It’s really not fair to say “oh well, there were other babies that died because of IS and the Syrian war”. All innocent babies and children are equal.
Besides, he didn’t stand a chance because even in this country small children with pneumonia can get incredibly sick enough to be in intensive care. He just didn’t have that