This moving footage shows a man tending to a wounded bird amid the destruction of Beirut.
The video was shared by New York Times journalist Vivian Yee, as she returned to her home in the Lebanese capital for the first time since Tuesday’s deadly blast.
Posting the clip on Twitter, she wrote: “Just went back to my shattered Beirut neighbourhood for the first time since the explosion.
“One of the first people I saw was this Syrian man, Abdel Salam, who was ever-so-gently pouring water into a bottle cap for this one-eyed injured pigeon to drink.”
Pigeon training is a popular sport across the Middle East, deeply rooted in Syrian tradition.
There are thousands of trainers in Lebanon, grooming and taking meticulous care of their prized birds, who they instruct to fly long distances before returning home.
The clip has been viewed more than 150,000 times in less than a day, with users describing it as both inspiring and heartbreaking.
One tweeted: “Genuine compassion is species blind. What a wonderful human under unfashionably difficult circumstances.”
While another commented: “The images and stories from Beirut are heartbreaking - unfathomable.
"The people of your city are in our thoughts.”
More than 150 people were killed and 5,000 injured in the warehouse explosion, which wreaked devastation across the capital.
Up to 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes and need food or shelter, which "also risks accelerating the spread of Covid-19 and the outbreak of other diseases,"the WHO has warned.
