Syrian Twitter girl Bana Alabed’s new home in Aleppo destroyed by airstrikes just days after old house bombed
Child reveals her dad was hurt after a rocket hit their home in what her mum called 'the worst bombing I've ever seen'
UNDER-siege Syrian girl Bana Alabed has had her new home destroyed by a rocket and her dad has been injured in the attack.
In a heart-wrenching Tweet from war-torn Aleppo she told the world: “My dad is injured now. I am crying - Bana #Aleppo.”
Her mum Fatemah said: “Our new house is hit with a rocket. This is the worst bombing I have ever seen. We are already convinced we will die.
“The army is so near now. I don't know what to do. Only way to flee is to regime side which I fear coz they will kill me. – Fatemah”
Days earlier Bana, seven, uploaded a picture of her as baby and revealed she was losing her milk teeth.
She said: “Good evening my friends. What are you doing today? I am happy I lost two more teeth. – Bana.”
The youngster was injured herself when their original home in Aleppo was destroyed by Russian and Syrian government airstrikes just over two weeks ago.
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Tweeting a picture of herself caked in dust, she wrote: “Tonight we have no house, it's bombed & I got in rubble.
“I saw deaths and I almost died. – Bana”
Shortly before, the little girl’s mum had tweeted an ominous “final message”, prompting fears for both of their safety.
She wrote: “Last message – under heavy bombardments now, can't be alive anymore.
“When we die, keep talking for 200,000 still inside. BYE.- Fatemah”
Fortunately they were both later confirmed to be alive, having escaped the bombardment – but their house was destroyed.
Shortly before tweeting pictures of her bombed out home, Bana wrote the next day: “We have no home now. I got minor injury. I didn't sleep since yesterday, I am hungry.
“I want to live, I don't want to die. – Bana”
The youngster was also hit by trolls who asked how she accessed power and the internet to tweet updates and claimed she was an anti-Syrian government plant.
But she replied: “I recharge my phone with solar panels and our agenda is just for Aleppo civilians like us evacuated from the battlefield. Nothing else.”
And her angry mum said: “There's Internet in East Aleppo. There's solar in E. Aleppo. There's Bana in E. Aleppo who's suffering & tweeting. Good night.”
The plight of the youngster caught the attention of the world when Fatemah Tweeted author JK Rowling to ask for Harry Potter books for her daughter to read to take her mind off the bombing.
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