The campaign of solidarity with the Syrian child Karim, who lost one of his eyes and broke his skull, and lost his mother in a bombardment of the Assad forces, expanded about a month ago on the town of Hamouriya in the eastern Gaza Strip.
The British delegate to the United Nations, Matthew Raikroft, participated in the campaign and demanded through his Twitter account to end the siege on the eastern Ghouta, pointing out that the Gauta of Damascus is under siege suffocating, with the inability of the United Nations to do anything. He used the SolidarityWithKarim label for solidarity with Karim. During a Security Council session, the ambassador covered one of his eyes, in line with the campaign launched by activists a few days ago on social networking sites where participants published pictures of them covering their eyes.
Activists on social networking sites also circulated a picture of the Turkish agriculture minister, Ahmed Ashraf Faki Baba, holding his hand on his left eye in solidarity with Syrian child Karim.
The Turkish Minister of Agriculture is the second Turkish minister to join forces with Karim. He was preceded by Turkish Defense Minister Noureddine Janeki, who wrote in a personal message on Twitter: "The baby is cream of our eyes and we demand a halt to the massacres in Syria.
Former Dutch housing minister and member of the French Parliament, Cecil Develot, published a tweet on Twitter, covering her left eye in solidarity with Karim. She said the world should not accept the bombing of the eastern Ghouta. Emergency medical care including dozens of children.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri participated in a solidarity campaign with the child Karim, where activists circled on social networking sites a picture of him covering his left eye, in solidarity with the baby Karim.
For its part, the international media participated in the campaign of solidarity with the child Karim. The staff of the Turkish Anatolia news agency stopped in front of the headquarters of the Agency's General Directorate in the Turkish capital of Ankara, and joined in the same way, carrying a large picture of the child Karim.
