This is the heartbreaking moment a four-year-old Syrian girl 'surrendered ' to a photographer when she mistook the man 's camera for a gun . Taken at the Atmen refugee camp on Syria 's border with Turkey last December , the image shows the young girl frozen in fear with her arms raised and her lips tightly pursed . The child has been identified as Adi Hudea , whose father died in the 2012 Hama massacre and who has been living with her traumatised mother and three siblings at Camp Atmen ever since . Scroll down for video . Harrowing : Taken at the Atmen refugee camp on Syria 's border with Turkey , the image shows four-year-old Adi Hudea frozen in fear with her arms raised and her lips tightly pursed . Shocking : Palestine-based photojournalist Nadia Abu Shaban tweeted the image along with the caption : 'Thought he has a weapon not a camera so she gave up ' The image was taken by Turkish photojournalist Osman Sagirli but went viral earlier this week when it was shared on social media . Palestine-based photojournalist Nadia Abu Shaban tweeted the image along with the caption : 'Thought he has a weapon not a camera so she gave up ' . Turkish media researching the origins of the photograph later suggested Adi Hudea was a four-year-old boy , not a girl , and revealed he was a resident of the Atmen refugee in Syria . But BBC Trending have subsequently spoken to Sagirli himself who confirmed the image shows a little girl . Ms Shaban 's tweet has since been reposted more than 14,000 times and prompted emotional responses from social media users . One wrote : ' I 'm actually weeping seeing this . We 've made this planet a horrible place , have n't we ? ' , as another said : 'We are failing the younger generations and those still to come . SHAME ON US . ' Horrified : The image has prompted emotional responses from social media users , especially on Twitter . One Twitter user wrote : ' I 'm actually weeping seeing this . We 've made this planet a horrible place , have n't we ? ' , while another said : 'We are failing the younger generations and those still to come . SHAME ON US . ' Carnage : Damaged buildings and vehicles are seen after Syrian army forces attacked the Hilal Hospital belonging to the Syrian Red Crescent in the city of Idlib earlier this week . Terror : A man walks with his children past the site of a Syrian government barrel bomb attack in Aleppo 's Dahret Awwad neighbourhood . The five-year-old Syrian Civil War has so far claimed more than 220,000 lives , including an estimated 10,000 children . Millions of people have been displaced by the conflict , with more than 12 million people - including five million children - still in desperate need of humanitarian assistance . The image emerged as the Syrian government announced plans to import 150,000 tonnes of wheat for its starving population - just weeks after saying it had no need to do so . Despite millions of Syrians fleeing the fighting to neighbouring countries , Syrian President Bashar al-Assad 's government is grappling with ensuring there is enough grain for all . Trade sources say Damascus faced challenges importing sufficient stocks as payment problems and fighting have deterred many international firms from trading . Terrorists : Militants from the Islamic State ( pictured ) have seized control of vast swathes of northern Syria , subjecting millions of people to their brutal oppression . Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has also been accused of numerous atrocities as he desperately tries to cling to his . Ruined : An apartment block in the city of Aleppo is seen destroyed following five years of conflict in Syria . The Civil War has so far claimed more than 220,000 lives , including an estimated 10,000 children . Before the war , Syria kept annual strategic stocks of around 3 million tonnes of wheat . The state-run General Establishment for Cereal Processing and Trade ( Hoboob ) has declined to give a figure for how much is left but said it is seeking 150,000 tonnes of wheat in an import tender that will close on April 13 . The announcement came three weeks after the minister of internal trade and consumer protection Hassan Safiya said an improved wheat harvest in 2015 would translate into self-sufficiency . 'We need to import to bolster our strategic stocks and have started with this tender to test the market , ' a Hoboob source told Reuters . Hoboob said the government was currently relying on its 2014 local harvest and drawing on its strategic reserves to keep its bread subsidy programme going .
Young refugee girl mistook General Establishment for Cereal Processing and Trade camera for a deadly weapon . Four-year-old froze in obvious terror and then raised her hands in the air . Child has been identified as Adi Hudea , whose father was killed in 2012 . Image has since gone viral , being shared on Twitter thousands of times .