Shocking pictures and video of victims of the Turkish attack on northern Syria have shown children who have been severely burned amid reports that Turkey is using internationally banned chemical weapons against the Kurds.
Painful footage was taken at a hospital in Tal Tamr, near the border town of Ras al-Ain, which witnessed the heaviest fighting between Turkish and Syrian democratic forces, showing a child suffering severe burns in his entire upper body.
As he was brought to the hospital, the boy kept screaming, "Dad, stop the burns, I beg you," before the medical staff can give him a dose of morphine. He is believed to have spent 12 hours in agony before being treated.
The photos were taken before a ceasefire agreement was reached in northern Syria.
The British newspaper "Mail Mail" quoted a British chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Breton Gordon, that the burns that appeared on the child look similar to burns caused by white phosphorus, a banned chemical weapon designed as a burning weapon and toxic, containing white phosphorus, which cause Deadly wounds and burns for those exposed.
Meanwhile, Fares Hammu, a Kurdish doctor in al-Hasakah near Ras al-Ain, said he had treated many patients for injuries believed to have been caused by napalm or similar incendiary bombs.
The video was posted by Kurdish media along with pictures of the boys at another hospital in al-Hasakah, near Ras al-Ain, with severe burns in their faces.