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7-year-old Bana Alabed’s Twitter reveals to the world what Syrian children are going through

1 Dec, 2016
7-year-old Bana Alabed’s Twitter reveals to the world what Syrian children are going through7-year-old Bana Alabed’s Twitter reveals to the world what Syrian children are going through

No family or child should ever go through this horror, but this is the reality for many Syrian families.

By now, we have all become aware of the war in Syria and how it’s affecting so many families. But for most of us, the conflict in Syria is distant and abstract—something we barely think about every day.

7-year-old Bana Alabed’s Twitter account has changed that, BBC reports. Since September 2016, Bana and her family have been updating the world about their life in Aleppo, Syria, and their heartbreaking tweets have been making the horror in Aleppo more real for their 190,000 followers. Though the account is registered to Bana, the account is managed by her mother, Fatemah al-Abad, who studied journalism and politics.

Difficult afternoon in East #Aleppo pic.twitter.com/OhIxcvZbZj

— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) November 26, 2016

Just last Sunday, the family tweeted a series of frightened updates that ended with a farewell message:

The army got in, this could be our last days sincerely talking. No Internet. Please please please pray for us.- Fatemah #Aleppo

— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) November 27, 2016

Last message - under heavy bombardments now, can't be alive anymore. When we die, keep talking for 200,000 still inside. BYE.- Fatemah — Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) November 27, 2016

Thankfully, Bana and her family survived the attack, but they are far from safe. Go to the next page to read what has become of them.

Bana and her family survived the attack, but have now lost their home.

Tonight we have no house, it's bombed & I got in rubble. I saw deaths and I almost died. - Bana #Aleppo pic.twitter.com/arGYZaZqjg

— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) November 27, 2016

This is our house, My beloved dolls died in the bombing of our house. I am very sad but happy to be alive.- Bana pic.twitter.com/9i0xxJrQtD

— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) November 29, 2016

The al-Abed family has been continuously clamoring for help getting out of war-torn Aleppo. Much has been said about the refugee situation in the international community, with a lot of the dialogue revolving around their impact on their host countries' economies. Bana's Twitter account has helped us see what Syrian families go through every day, and it's easy to see that if any of us were in the same situation, we would do anything it takes to bring our families to a peaceful place as well.

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“This is no way to live—and too many are dying”

Though some Twitter users have called Bana’s Twitter account a hoax, labelling it as propaganda, it’s important to note that the al-Abed family are not the only ones living in terror. According to UNICEF, almost 500,000 children live in besieged areas in the country, cut off from aid and basic services.

“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.”

READ: The forgotten children of the Syrian War

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