A seven-year-old Syrian girl, whose Twitter account serves as a daily reminder of the human toll in war-torn Aleppo, has shared a new video showing some of the damage of the latest bombardment.
The video shows incredible damage to residential buildings in Syria’s largest city, which has been besieged by days of heavy air strikes.
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Intense air strikes have battered the eastern part of the city since Tuesday, when the Syrian army and its allies resumed operations after a pause lasting weeks. They launched ground attacks against insurgent positions on Friday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 48 people, including at least five children, were killed in eastern Aleppo on Saturday by dozens of air strikes and barrel bombs and dozens of artillery rounds. That brings the number of people killed by the increased bombardment of Aleppo and the surrounding countryside over the past five days to about 180, including 97 in the city’s besieged eastern sector, the observatory added.
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“I’m sad. It’s so bad,” seven-year-old Bana al-Abed is heard saying in the video.
The young girl’s Twitter account went viral in October. Every day she, and her mother Fatemah, go online to share the horrors of living in Aleppo through pictures, videos and text updates describing the devastation surrounding them.
“I want to let the world know about our life here,” Fatemah told Global News in a direct message on Twitter in October.
“I want people to know that we are suffering here and [they] should stand up for us.”
— With files from Reuters
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