Bana Alabed's home had just been destroyed, and the 7-year-old Syrian girl was injured and on the run.
"I am hungry. I want to live," she wrote this week, in a story that is being told entirely through a Twitter account managed by her mother, Fatemah, that is offering a chilling, up-close account of the bloody conflict.
On Tuesday, Fatemah responded to questions posed by The Japan Times on Twitter about her family's plight, offering a grim picture of their current situation.
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