This video of a Syrian volunteer rescuing a baby will move you to tears

A heartrending video from war-torn Syria's Idlib district shows a volunteer break down into tears after he rescues a month-old baby girl from the rubble of a four-storey building following an hours-long operation.

The footage show the rescue worker, a member of the White Helmets or Syrian Civil Defence group, overwhelmed with emotion as his arms clutch the dust-covered baby.

"She was inside on the fourth floor when the building was attacked. I swear, four floors! She stayed beneath the rubble and eventually she got out alive. We worked two hours to get her out alive," he says, still holding the baby as tears run down his face.

The video then shows the volunteer rushing the child in his arms to the hospital.

"When I took her into my arms, I felt as if I was her real father and she is my own daughter...When I hugged her, I got very emotional," says the rescue worker, who is identified as Abo Kafah in the video.

"For around one and a half hour, we were just looking for her. After that, we found her. We saved her from beneath the rubble. It was very good work. A child who might have died, if not for the will of Allah who helped us getting her out. Thanks to Allah, she is not badly hurt. We got her out!"

Abo Kafah is one of almost 3,000 members of the the White Helmets or Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue and humanitarian group credited with saving tens of thousands of people facing bombardments in war-ravaged Syria. The all-volunteer group has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize his year.

The group says the video was shot on Wednesday, the same day warplanes bombarded two hospitals in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo.

The bombing is believed to have been carried out by Russian or Syrian warplanes. Syria and Russia say they target only militants.

The conflict in Syria has made nearly half the country homeless, causing a major a refugee crisis in the region.