Social media flooded with harrowing images of East Aleppo’s exodus

Published November 29th, 2016 - 01:14 GMT
Displaced families arrive at a makeshift camp in a government-held area (George Ourfalian/AFP)
Displaced families arrive at a makeshift camp in a government-held area (George Ourfalian/AFP)

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.

United Nations: 16 thousand people have been displaced in Aleppo after the fighting in recent days.

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.

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:

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. 

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:

#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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