This is Syria, not Vietnam: Agonising photos show the Syrian children burned by 'napalm bombs' in air strike that killed 25 civilians

A series of government airstrikes hit the province of Hama on Thursday[CN]

周四政府对哈马省进行了一系列的空袭。

At least 25 civilians, including six children, were killed[CN]

事故中至少25名平民（其中保罗6名儿童）丧生。

President of the Syrian-American Medical Society shared shocking photos[CN]

叙美医学会主席分享了令人震惊的照片。

Said the photos show child victims of 'Assad's Napalm in Hama'[CN]

照片上是哈马省阿萨德汽油弹下的受难儿童。

Comes after a video showed a girl being covered in mud to soothe burns[CN]

之前还播放了一个视频：一名小女孩滚在泥水中减缓烧伤。

Aid workers and hospitals have run out of many medical supplies [CN]

救助人员和医院用光了很多医学药品。

WARNING: Graphic images[CN]

警告：图片如下

A severely burned young boy is treated at the Syrian-American Medical Society hospital after 'napalm bombs' were reportedly dropped in an airstrike in Syria's Hama province
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新闻报道叙利亚哈马省空袭投下汽油弹之后，一名男童严重烧伤，在叙利亚美国联合医学院接受治疗。

Doctors were forced to cut the boy's clothes off of his badly burned body as he yelled out in pain[CN]

医生强制把衣服从该名男孩的严重烧伤身体下分割出来，他痛得大叫出来。

President of the Syrian-American Medical Society Dr. Zaher Sahloul shared this image of a young girl caught up in the airstrikes and a young burn curled up on a hospital bed
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叙利亚美国联合医学会会长Zaher Sahloul分享了一张图片，一名小女孩空袭受难。另一名则蜷缩在医院的床上。

A large number of child victims of incendiary bombs were brought into the hospital on Thursday[CN]

周四很多燃烧弹中的受伤儿童被带到医院。

Syrians fleeing from the town of Souran, in northern Hama, drive past burning vehicles on September 1 after fighters from the Jund al-Aqsa Islamist Brigade took control of the town from Syrian government forces[CN]

9月1号，永德阿克萨伊斯兰军团从叙利亚政府力量手中攻占城镇。叙利亚军队逃离哈马北部的苏兰镇，驶过着火的车辆。

Syrian Civil Defence members search for survivors on Thursday amid burning vehicles belonging to people fleeing from the town of Souran, in northern Hama, after they were reportedly targeted by a Syrian government forces air strike

A young girl cries out in pain after suffering burns from what locals are calling 'napalm bomb' in the city of Homs

The mud helps cool burns caused by 'napalm bombs' and is being used instead of exhausted medical supplies

She shakes and cries out as locals try to stem her pain with the mud

This photo shows destruction at al-Qrabis neighbourhood in the Homs city, Syria

Harrowing images of child victims of ‘napalm bombs’ have emerged after suspected government warplanes carried out several airstrikes in Syria's Hama province on Thursday.

A large number of children injured by incendiary bombs were taken to the Syrian-American Medical Society hospital in Hama, president of the aid group Dr. Zaher Sahloul said.

One of the shocking photographs shows a young boy sat upright on a hospital bed with horrific burns. His hair has been singed and his clothes have been cut away from his body.

Dr Sahloul said on Twitter: 'This is not a victim of American Napalm in Vietnam but a Syrian child victim of Assad's Napalm in Hama.'

Other images show a little girl splattered with what looks like blood as a young boy curls up on the hospital bed beside her.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed a series of airstrikes since early on Thursday had killed at least 25 civilians, including six children, in northern Hama province.

Aid workers have described the weapons used in the airstrikes as ‘napalm bombs’. 

This has not been independently verified but the Syrian government is proven to use chemical weapons and has not signed up to an international convention that prevents the use of incendiary devices on civilian populations.

Syrian warplanes were also accused of dropping napalm bombs on the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Waer in the city of Homs this weekend.

After the attack, video emerged showing a severely burned Syrian girl shaking and crying while locals bandaged her wounds and smeared terracotta-coloured mud on her head.

'After the bombing by war planes stopped, they began firing napalm,' a doctor in the district told Al-Jazeera. 'Some of the patients were burned.'

A severe shortage of medical supplies means mud is being used as a cooling agent on the excruciating burns.

'They use mud because there is no medication and with napalm you can't use water,' a Homs activist told The Telegraph. 'You make the burn even worse if you use water so they looked around and they used the mud.'

The local doctor said they are having to use polyester bandages for burns patients 'which worsen the injuries' because they have no other options.

Incendiary bombs are described by witnesses as 'fireballs' because they ignite while falling and light up the sky.

The bomb's flammable thermite content burns at 2,200C and ignites fires that are hard to put out. It is the hottest burning man-made substance and can burn human flesh down to the bone.

The airstrikes on Thursday came amid a lightning advance by insurgents on government-controlled areas of the central province.

The rebel offensive is led by an ultraconservative Islamic group, Jund al-Aqsa, and several factions from the western-backed Free Syrian Army.

In the past three days, the insurgents have pushed their way from northern Hama, where they are usually based, down south toward government-held areas.

Local activist Ahmed al-Ahmed said the rebels were only eight kilometers (five miles) away from the provincial capital, Hama.

The insurgents have taken over a government military base and are in control of several towns along the highway linking it to the capital, Damascus, following a "surprising" government retreat, he said.

The advances in Hama are significant because if rebels control the city and the highway they can sever government supply lines and deprive President Bashar Assad of a traditional stronghold.

Clashes are now concentrated around a hill outside the provincial capital, also called Hama, al-Ahmed said.

Al-Ahmed, who is currently in Turkey, said government forces in Hama province may have been weakened because many troops were transferred to Aleppo city, where they are bogged down in vicious fighting with advancing rebels.

The Hama-based Syrian Press Center, an activist group operated by al-Ahmed, said at least ten people were killed when warplanes struck a crowd of people displaced from Suran, a town north of Hama city that was seized by opposition fighters. Another 15 people were killed further to the west, the center said.

Syria's state news agency, SANA, says warplanes killed 10 "terrorists" in northern Hama.