This video from Syria will break your heart

Aug 28, 2013 - 03:31
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This video from Syria will break your heart
A screenshot from the reunion video uploaded on YouTube. Picture: Supplied

WE HAVE seen the video of the massacre in Syria. We've seen dead children lined across the ground.

But out of every human crisis there are tales of hope such as this one - the reunion of a father and his son who was assumed dead in the alleged chemical massacre.

The boy, wailing, is carried by a friend or relative through a crowd to his father, the man in the white shirt.

The dad, who appears both exhausted and relieved, locks him in a tight hug and cannot plant enough kisses on his face.

The footage was released by a Syrian opposition activist.

The reunion occurred in Zamalka, a suburb of Damascus which activists allege was one of the three suburbs struck in the poison gas attack last week.

Three hospitals in Damascus told Médecins Sans Frontières they received 3600 patients with neurotoxin symptoms after last week's bombing.

Of those, 355 had reportedly died by the weekend.

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