A mother and daughter whose tweets have offered
heartbreaking insight into Syria's civil war were "on the run" Monday
as the pro-regime troops pushed into a rebel-held area of Aleppo. Seven-year-old
Bana al-Abed and her mother, Fatemah, have provided dispatches from the front
line and gained some 140,000 Twitter followers.
Fatemah told NBC News last
month how her daughter had "started to ask me if we are going to die in
the bombings."
On Monday, following an intensifying attack by the
forces of President Bashar al-Assad, Fatemah tweeted that she had been injured
when her home was bombed the night before and that her family is now "on
the run." She also shared that her daughter was frightened for her life.
The tweet came a day after a photo of a dust-covered and clearly shocked Bana
was also posted.
Later Monday, the account posted: "We have no
home now. I got minor injury. I didn't sleep since yesterday, I am hungry. I
want to live, I don't want to die. Says The Girl, Bana."
Fatemah later told NBC News' Richard Engel Monday
night that they were relatively safe at a friends house and Bana was sleeping. "She
didn't sleep last night and all the day because there is always bomb and
warplane in the sky," Fatemah said of her daughter. "Aleppo is
bleeding, really it's bleeding, Aleppo it's suffering very much," she
said.
"We are under siege for some three months, the
people here are suffering from hunger, and now they are suffering from bombs,
they don't know how they deal with this inhumanity," she added.
According to a United Nations report, nearly a
million Syrians are living under siege in Aleppo, and officials have described
the situation as "a slaughterhouse."
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