He is just a child. But more than six months of war in his country, Yemen, had taught him the bitter realities of conflict. People die, then they are buried.
"Don't bury me," Fareed says again through tears.
One of the medical staff laughs as he pats the child's small legs to comfort him.
The interaction was filmed this month by Ahmed Basha, a local photographer who recounted the story to CNN.
"I thought he was just injured," Basha says from his home in Taiz, Yemen's third-largest city. "I wasn't even sure I had been recording when he said this. I was more concerned with my still photography."
Days later, Fareed died of wounds to his head. The boy was buried, hurriedly, in a family graveyard.
When Basha got word of the child's death, he began sifting through his footage. He published the video of the boy begging to live and began telling the world his story.
It was quickly picked up by social media at a time when little else on Yemen's war seems to gain much attention.
It is the war the world forgot, activists say, and little Fareed is reminding us.
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