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15th Jan 2017

Syrian girl Bana Alabed tweets about her safe new life after leaving Aleppo

The 7-year-old girl shared some heartwarming new tweets.

Megan Roantree

The 7-year-old girl shared some heartwarming new tweets.

Bana Alabed caught the attention of people all over the world when she began to tweet from war-torn Aleppo about the horrors that went on.

Bana recently fled the Syria and is now safe in Turkey.

She has been tweeting positive messages about how her life has changed since she left the horrific situation in Syria.

She tweeted a picture of herself and led the caption with ‘no more bombing’.

Bana stated that she has had twenty days of peace in her life, and that she had thought the bombing in Syria was normal until she left there.

She posted another picture of her smiling siblings.

Bana and her family arrived in Turkey in December and were greeted by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his wife, Emine.

The tweets from Bana’s account gave people all over the world and insight into what life in Aleppo is currently like.

Thankfully, Bana and her family and now safe in Turkey but the Syrian crisis still remains. Find out how you can help the people of Aleppo here.