--- title: Bana Alabed, Who Tweeted From Aleppo, Is Safely Evacuated description: Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl who charted the horrors of the assault on Aleppo, has been safely evacuated from the city. canonical: https://time.com/4606185/bana-alabed-evacuated-aleppo/ author: Tara John article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T12:21:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:35.394Z og:title: Bana Alabed, Who Tweeted From Aleppo, Is Safely Evacuated og:description: Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl who charted the horrors of the assault on Aleppo, has been safely evacuated from the city. og:url: https://time.com/4606185/bana-alabed-evacuated-aleppo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b8990b4d500c4ad/6988b35dbc6cfcdc3b3df9bd/bana-al-abed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: SYRIA-CONFLICT-INTERNET-TWITTER og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bana Alabed, Who Tweeted From Aleppo, Is Safely Evacuated twitter:description: Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl who charted the horrors of the assault on Aleppo, has been safely evacuated from the city. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b8990b4d500c4ad/6988b35dbc6cfcdc3b3df9bd/bana-al-abed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Young Syrian Girl Whose Twitter Feed Went Viral Has Safely Left Aleppo > Sponsored content. 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The President of the Syrian American Medical Society, Ahmad Tarakji, said on Monday that NGO workers on the ground are assisting Alabed and others. Alabed’s Twitter account, which was operated by Fatemah, went viral in September for describing the horrors of daily life in the besieged city. > [](https://twitter.com/tarakjiahmad/status/810741000855425024) > [](https://twitter.com/rabiih/status/810754316105551872) > [](https://twitter.com/QASIOUN%5FNEWS/status/810791920125575170) J.K. Rowling is among the thousands that took notice of Alabed’s tweets, prompting the author to sent the girl [a digital copy ](http://time.com/4581632/jk-rowling-harry-potter-book-syria/?iid=sr-link3)of _Harry Potter._ But there have been concerns that Alabed’s account was too active for someone in a city that frequently suffers power cuts. Even Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s suggested that her 140-character messages were merely “propaganda,” the [_Washington_ _Post_ reports](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/12/19/bana-al-abed-told-the-world-about-aleppo-on-twitter-now-she-is-safe/?utm%5Fterm=.8c89ed050533). Alabed’s supporters now hope the girl’s appearance on Monday will end criticism of the authenticity of her account. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4606185/bana-alabed-evacuated-aleppo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606185/bana-alabed-evacuated-aleppo/"},"headline":"The Young Syrian Girl Whose Twitter Feed Went Viral Has Safely Left Aleppo","datePublished":"2016-12-19T12:21:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:35.394Z","description":"Supporters hope Bana Alabed's evacuation will end doubts about the authenticity of her account","url":"https://time.com/4606185/bana-alabed-evacuated-aleppo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Syria","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b8990b4d500c4ad/6988b35dbc6cfcdc3b3df9bd/bana-al-abed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b8990b4d500c4ad/6988b35dbc6cfcdc3b3df9bd/bana-al-abed.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SYRIA-CONFLICT-INTERNET-TWITTER","caption":"SYRIA-CONFLICT-INTERNET-TWITTER","creditText":"Thaer Mohammed—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4606185/bana-alabed-evacuated-aleppo/","name":"The Young Syrian Girl Whose Twitter Feed Went Viral Has Safely Left Aleppo"}}]}] ```