Saving Syria's Children

{{Short description|BBC Panorama documentary film}}

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Saving Syria's Children is a BBC Panorama documentary film with reporter Ian Pannell. The film's director, camera operator and producer was Darren Conway; the editor was Tom Giles. The documentary is an account of two doctors working in Syria, Rola Hallam, an intensive care doctor and Saleyha Ahsan, an emergency doctor from London, working for the Hand in Hand for Syria charity.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c7m8s |title=Panorama : Saving Syria's Children |last=Pannell |first=Ian |date=30 Sep 2013 |website=BBC One }}{{cite web | last=Pannell | first=Ian | title='Why bomb us while we're at school?' | website=BBC News | date=30 September 2013 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-24288698 | access-date=27 November 2018}}

During filming in Atareb hospital in Aleppo on August 26, 2013, a ZAB-500 incendiary bomb was dropped from a MiG fighter jet on a school, the Iqraa Institute, in Urum al-Kubra, Aleppo, which resulted in at least 37 civilian (mostly child) deaths, and 44 civilian injuries, as reported by NBC, documented by the Violations Documentation Center in Syria and later investigated and confirmed by Human Rights Watch.{{cite web | title=Time to Act against Incendiary Weapons | website=Human Rights Watch | date=12 December 2016 | url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/12/time-act-against-incendiary-weapons | access-date=27 November 2018}}{{cite web | title=Doctor: Napalm-like attack on Syrian schoolkids was 'apocalyptic' | website=NBC News | date=30 August 2013 | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/doctor-napalm-attack-syrian-schoolkids-was-apocalyptic-flna8C11045350 | access-date=27 November 2018}}{{cite web | author=The Violations Documenting Center | title=Center for Documentation of Violations in Syria - A Special Report on the Use of Incendiary Bombs In Aleppo and Dara'a Governorates | website=مركز توثيق الانتهاكات في سوريا | date=26 August 2013 | url=http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/reports/1382274490#.W_1ffdX7TIU | access-date=27 November 2018}} The BBC crew filmed the incident and it was included in the documentary. The aftermath of the bombing and the reactions of those affected by it were also featured.{{cite web | last=Ahsan | first=Saleyha | title=An English doctor in Syria: Pity the children - the horror I saw | website=The Independent | date=29 September 2013 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/an-english-doctor-in-syria-pity-the-children-the-horror-i-saw-8847628.html | access-date=27 November 2018}}

The film was screened in Australia during October 2013 on SBS's Dateline.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/saving-syrias-children |title=Saving Syria's Children |last=Pannell |first=Ian |date=22 September 2013 |website=SBS News }}