Bana al-Abed: From a Syrian War Zone to New York City
Fatemah said that The last days were horrible days,
"I didn’t want to eat it again." When the family finally fled the city, they joined thousands of others on green buses
that would take them into the countryside as part of a cease-fire.
Fatemah said that We decided to go to Twitter because of direct access to the world,
Fatemah said that As a mother, I know all the parents, they know what their family needs,
Even after many of her photos and videos were verified and other residents corroborated her story, some doubted the family was in Aleppo at all, arguing
that internet access would have been impossible or that the family was distributing "fake news." Please verify you’re not a robot by clicking the box.
6, 2017
As airstrikes rained down on Aleppo while the Syrian government wrested the city from rebel forces, Bana al-Abed
and her mother, Fatemah, were tweeting daily about life under siege.
