A Syrian girl of seven years, which has attracted international attention tweeting about everyday life in the area controlled by the rebels in the east of Aleppo area, shared a message Sunday night saying his house had been bombed.
"Tonight we do not have a house, it was bombed and I only have debris. I saw dead and I almost died," tweeted Bana Alabed. On Monday, her mother posted an update saying the family was running away.
Syrian regime forces launched a ground assault on Saturday, snatching control of a number of neighborhoods from northeastern Aleppo to the rebels. It is the biggest victory for the Syrian regime since the uprising began more than five years ago.
Fatemah, Bana's mother told CNN that her home was directly impacted Sunday night, forcing them out onto the street to wait for the planes to leave and the bombing cease.
Fatemah, 26, set up a Twitter account for her daughter in late September to "share our life here with the world," while the Syrian army launched a major offensive to retake Aleppo.
"Last message. [We are] under heavy bombardment now, we can not stay alive. When we die, keep talking about the 200,000 who are still inside. Goodbye, "Fatemah tweeted Sunday night before publishing a photograph of his daughter Bana in which she appeared to be covered in dust.
The activist news agency SMART News Agency said on Sunday that air strikes hit the al-Shaar neighborhood, where the Bana family lives, injuring at least five people.
A video shared by SMART showed people in al-Shaar walking away from the scene after the fact.
Fatemah told CNN via a direct Twitter message that her kids - Mohamed aged 5; Noor, 3, and Bana- were not injured during the bombing and his family sought refuge in a neighboring house Saturday night.
Hundreds of civilians have left the eastern part of Aleppo, controlled by the rebels, since the assault that occurred this weekend. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the United Kingdom, said that the number of civilians who have left the city amounts to the thousands.
The Syrian army told state news agency SANA that its units secured evacuation routes for 1,500 people from eastern Aleppo to areas controlled by the regime on Sunday.
On Monday Bana tweeted asking people to pray in the midst of the bombings. Heavy artillery fired by regime forces continued. The Al-Shaar neighborhood remained the target of intense artillery fire by Syrian regime forces on Monday, according to activists at the Aleppo Media Center.
A local Aleppo activist said on Twitter that he knew nothing about Bana's whereabouts and his family, but that "his neighborhood had been heavily attacked."
A few hours later, Fatemah tweeted that his family was fleeing.
"We are fleeing because many people have died from heavy bombardment. We are fighting for our lives. Still with you, "said Fatemah.
"I do not want to die," is the latest message on Bana's Twitter account.
