Lying tensed on his hospital bed, a six-year old pleaded with his doctors. "Don't bury me," he implored, "Don't bury me."

Caught on camera, Fareed Shawky's terrified whimper was shared online more than 50,000 times.

In the video, doctors laughed gently with one rubbing the child's knee, as if to reassure him he would be OK.

But a few days later, Fareed's family would bury him, counting the boy as one of the more than 500 child casualties of Yemen's war.