Helped by her mother, Fatemah, who manages the @AlabedBana account, Bana Alabed has uploaded pictures and videos of life during the nearly six-year-old Syrian war, gaining around 331,000 followers on the micro-blogging site since September.
Last week, mother and daughter shared a video of themselves asking US First Lady Michelle Obama for help in reaching a safe place after advances by the Syrian army and allied Shia Muslim militias into rebel-held eastern parts of the city.
A ceasefire and evacuation deal was agreed last Tuesday but thousands of people have struggled to leave due to hold-ups.
‘This morning @AlabedBana was also rescued from #Aleppo with her family. We warmly welcomed them,’ Turkish aid agency IHH wrote on Twitter on Monday with a picture of the smiling young girl alongside an aid worker.
Speaking to the pro-opposition Qasioun news agency in al-Rashideen on the southwest edge of Aleppo, Fatemah said in English: ‘I am sad because I leave my country, I leave my soul there ... We can't stay there because there are a lot of bombs, and no clean water, no medicine.
‘When we get out, we had a lot of suffering because we stayed almost 24 hours in bus without water and food or anything,’ Fatemah continued. ‘We stayed like a prisoner, a hostage but finally we arrived here.’
An operation to bring thousands of people out of the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo was under way again on Monday after being delayed for several days, together with the evacuation of two besieged pro-government villages in nearby Idlib province.
