The heartbreaking images of desperate Afghan women giving their babies to US military soldiers

Moving images of a baby being pushed at arm’s length by civilians towards US servicemen standing on the perimeter wall, protecting the airport in the Afghan capital, have gone viral. In this video posted Thursday on Twitter, we see a soldier grab the infant by one arm, and hoist him, his diaper half undone, to pass it over a barbed wire to the soldiers behind him, who then lower him from the other side.

Asked about the video, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said it was an “act of compassion.” “A parent asked the Marines to take care of the baby because the baby was sick,” he told a press conference on Friday. “So the Marine you see stretching his arm over the wall took him to a Norwegian hospital which is at the airport. They treated the child and returned him to his father,” he said. -he tells. John Kirby admitted he didn’t know where the baby was now.

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