Life and Death in Aleppo
Sebastiano Tomada
Sipa Press
Winner of the 2013 ICRC Humanitarian Visa d’or Award – International Committee of the Red Cross
Since July 2012, the battle had been raging between government forces and insurgents with the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighting for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Medical centers treating casualties in rebel-held districts became a military target, forcing doctors to work in an undercover network of clinics and hospitals.
One of these is Dar al-Shifa hospital: previously a private clinic owned by a businessman loyal to President Bashar Assad, Dar al-Shifa became a field hospital run by volunteer doctors, nurses and aides united in their opposition to the regime and the need to provide medical care to both civilians and rebels.
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Sebastiano Tomada first covered the Syrian revolution in Idlib and along the border between Syria and Lebanon, then shifted his attention inside Aleppo where he began covering the advances and losses of the Free Syrian Army. With a focus on daily life and medical conditions in a city under siege, Sebastiano shows what is cruel reality for the men, women and children who continue to live in the besieged city of Aleppo.
Moving from makeshift frontlines to the lives of civilians who have lost their homes, the report poignantly documents the situations of the wounded, the difficulty of accessing health care and the precarious situation of relief structures exposed to a war that has no end in sight.
Sebastiano Tomada
