Bana al-Abed: From a Syrian War Zone to New York City<br />Fatemah said that The last days were horrible days,<br />"I didn’t want to eat it again." When the family finally fled the city, they joined thousands of others on green buses<br />that would take them into the countryside as part of a cease-fire.<br />Fatemah said that We decided to go to Twitter because of direct access to the world,<br />Fatemah said that As a mother, I know all the parents, they know what their family needs,<br />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<br />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.<br />6, 2017<br />As airstrikes rained down on Aleppo while the Syrian government wrested the city from rebel forces, Bana al-Abed<br />and her mother, Fatemah, were tweeting daily about life under siege.
