In the wake of a chemical attack that left a Damascus suburb decimated, we have not heard many heartwarming stories. Day after day, we receive news of a rising death toll and confirmation that Syria did in fact launch a deadly chemical weapon attack on their own people. But an emotional video has emerged this week from Syria of a heart-wrenching reunion between a father and son. The distraught father belived that his young son had been killed in the chemical attack; to his surprise his young toddler son is being toted by another member of the community.
The footage was recorded in the southwestern town of Zamalka was posted on YouTube by Syrian activists Monday. It shows a young man initially seen to be being restrained due to his surmounting grief, but then he is moved out of the home on to the street where he is reunited with his son before literally collapsing due to joy and shock. The young boy is briefly scooped up, so his father can calm himself down after his legs buckle underneath him. A few moments later, the father and son are reunited, as his son cries in his father’s arms, and the emotional father attempts to comfort his child in a time of such chaos.
Zamalka, the Damascus suburb where the video was shot, was reportedly hit the hardest during the chemical attack. The suburb filled with innocent men, women and children lost about 1,700 people. Devastating stories of loss have surface, notably one family has reportedly 21 members in the gas attack that was unleashed on the town as they slept in their beds. According to a relative of the Waked family, a total of 12 women and girls and 9 men and boys were killed in the atrocity.
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