Twitter has been overrun with striking pictures as up to 16,000 people flee East Aleppo in the face of rapid government advances into the rebel-held area.
Most fled on foot, while others were lucky enough to be evacuated by bus. They are heading mostly to camps in government-held or Kudish areas.
الأمم المتحدة: نزوح 16 ألف شخص في حلب بعد القتال في الأيام الأخيرةhttps://t.co/3pUVQ4gxCc#حلب #سوريا pic.twitter.com/jTbads6HWS
— عطر الياسمين (@Yasmeen0Yaso) November 29, 2016
United Nations: 16 thousand people have been displaced in Aleppo after the fighting in recent days.
مرارة النزوح بوسائل نقل بدائية في #حلب
— أحمد العقدة (@AhmadAlokdeh) November 29, 2016
جرحى وكبار سن وأطفال أجبرهم القصف على مغادرة منازلهم في الأحياء المحاصرة pic.twitter.com/MTV6Tl6zUo
The bitterness of displacement via primitive means of transport in #Aleppo The wounded, elderly and children were forced by the shelling to leave their homes in the besieged neighborhoods.
رجل يحمل أمه أثناء هروبهم من القصف على أحياء حلب الشرقية#حلب#سوريا
— Saeed.Nasiri (@saeednasiri12) November 29, 2016
pic.twitter.com/6eW3IwlcyH
A man carries his mother during their escape from the shelling of the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo.
An account belonging to “the [Muslim] Brotherhood in Syria” posted this image:
ناشطون: حركة نزوح واسعة لسكان الأحياء الشرقية في مدينة #حلب المحاصرة، جراء القصف المكثف والحملة العسكرية لعصابات الأسد و #روسيا pic.twitter.com/B6s6guTmt7
— إخوان سوريا - إعلام (@IkhwanSyrMedia) November 29, 2016
Activists: widespread displacement of the population from the eastern neighborhoods of the besieged city of #Aleppo, due to heavy shelling and the military campaign of Assad's and #Russia's gangs.
حركة نزوح مستمرة للسكان في الأحياء المحاصرة تجاه مناطق سيطرة النظام في #حلب pic.twitter.com/Y1fzhyakTg
— Mohammed Al-khatieb (@MohAlkhatieb) November 29, 2016
The continuous movement of displaced residents from the besieged neighborhoods towards the regime controlled areas in #Aleppo
One newspaper even had “the Great Displacement” as its headline:
#حلب بين «سقوط» و «تحرير» و #نزوح_كبير و #تهديد بـ #تبدل_مسار_الحرب pic.twitter.com/ijkbW6LrIX
— Pierre Abi-Saab (@PierreABISAAB) November 29, 2016
#Aleppo between "falling" and "liberation" and #TheGreatDisplacement, #Threatening to #ChangeTheCourseOfWar
There are widely reported to be up to 250,000 civilians living in East Aleppo, so these haunting photos are likely only the beginning of more to come as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad move deeper into the opposition stronghold.
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