“When we die, keep talking for 200,000 inside.”
Bana Alabed, the seven-year old Syrian girl who has garnered worldwide attention for shedding light on life in war-torn Aleppo on Twitter, posted a heartbreaking “last message” on Sunday night as the Syrian army made rapid advances on the rebel-held city.
According to the BBC, several thousand civilians fled Aleppo after Syrian army forces captured large sections of the city over the weekend with the aim of diving the Rebel-held eastern part of the city in two.
Approximately 275,000 people are said to remain in eastern Aleppo, where supplies of food and medical supplies are believed to have virtually run out.
Alabed, whose tweets from Aleppo are followed by over 130,000 people, tweeted the following messages (the account is moderated by her mother, Fatemah) on Sunday night as the situation grew bleaker for many Aleppo residents.
https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/802865278417768448
https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/802870627686301697
https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/802969219268743168
On Monday morning, Bana posted the following message.
https://twitter.com/AlabedBana/status/803148788852490240
On Sunday,
UNICEF called for lifting sieges and allowing humanitarian access in Syria to help approximately 500,000 children living in besieged areas all over the country.
"For millions of human beings in Syria, life has become an endless nightmare – in particular for the hundreds of thousands of children living under siege. Children are being killed and injured, too afraid to go to school or even play, surviving with little food and hardly any medicine,” said Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director.
“This is no way to live – and too many are dying.”
