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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - MARCH 15: “I was playing football outside when I was hit by a missile. When I woke up, I was in a hospital room,” a 10-year-old Syrian boy says in an Istanbul prosthesis center. Taha, who lost his right leg during an airstrike in Syria's Deir-Ez Zor province three years ago, is only one of the thousands of Syrian children, whose bodies have been mutilated by the war. As the Syrian war enters its ninth year, children are still paying the heaviest price. Last year was the deadliest for children in Syria -- 1,106 were killed in attack, according to UNICEF. Taha was playing football when he heard the aircraft. He tried to escape and hid in a nearby building but aircraft struck the building. He was trapped under the rubble for three hours and his family was told he died. “I cried so much,” his young mother Yasemin, 27, said. “I did not believe that he died at first. Later we learned that he was alive but lost his one leg and his hip was broken." Doctors were not hopeful of his condition. "We lived hard days but got over the most important part of these days," his mother said. Taha and his family now see themselves luckier than others. They can at least find a center, which supplied a high-tech artificial leg. Private Kuwait Istanbul Orthotic Prosthetic Center in the city’s Edirnekapi district was established in 2017 by the Istanbul-based IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation in collaboration with Zakat House Kuwait and Alliance of International Doctors (AID). Using cutting-edge technology, 3D printed-limbs are being produced at the three-story clinic. The technology has the capacity to change the lives of millions of amputees. “What made me the happiest was to see Taha can walk again,” his mother says. “I don’t know what I would do if we couldn’t find this center.” “He can walk right now but he needs much more time to get used to his prosthesis,” she added.(Footage by Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)