Boy who has known nothing but war seen in new images

A new photo of Omran Daqneesh, a 5-year-old boy whose image became a symbol of the suffering in Aleppo after he was photographed in the wake of an August 2016 attack, surfaced Monday after he and his family were interviewed by a pro-government channel in Syria, Al Mayadeen TV.

The image of Omran is the first one seen publicly since a picture of him bloodied and dusty in the back of an ambulance in Aleppo went viral after he was rescued from a destroyed building in the besieged city's Qaterji neighborhood after an airstrike.

Omran's family did not flee the city after the attack and ABC News is told that they remain loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In the family's Al Mayadeen TV interview, Omran's father tells pro-Assad journalist Kinana Allouche that rebels and international media used his son's image only to attack the Syrian government.

“They wanted to trade in his blood and publish his photos,” he said, according to reports.

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His father said Omran's 10-year-old brother, Ali, was killed in the same strike that injured Omran.

According to the doctor who treated Omran after the August 2016 attack, he was covered in dust and bleeding from the head.

“Omran was scared and dazed at the same time. He wasn’t crying at all. It seemed like he had been asleep when it happened,” Mohammad, who treated Omran, said.

Mohammad said Omran suffered one simple wound to the scalp and was discharged from the hospital after two hours.

“There are hundreds and thousands of stories like Omran’s,” he said. “Omran was lucky. Other children are dead or paralyzed, and their stories didn’t reach the world.”

Omran's photo, along with several others from the attack, were published online by the Aleppo Media Center, an activist organization seeking to draw attention to the plight of civilians in the city.

According to UNICEF, the continuing conflict in Syria has caused the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with more than 8 million children in danger.

ABC News' Lena Masri and Kirit Radia contributed to this report.

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