New hope for Syrian Twitter girl's followers after fears she had died

The seven-year-old girl who tweets from besieged Syria was feared dead after her account went silent over the weekend, but a recent post has given followers hope.

Young Aleppo girl Bana Alabed documents her experience as the civil war rages on in Syria. Source: Twitter

Bana Alabed, who tweets about her experience in war-ravaged Aleppo, appears to be alive after media flagged concerns for her safety over the weekend when her account was deleted.

But on Monday evening local time, a Tweet signed by her mother Fatemah, who often tweets on her daughter's account, read:

“Under attack. Nowhere to go, every minute feels like death. Pray for us. Goodbye.”

Her Twitter account spells out the day-to-day horrors of war endured by civilians.

“Tonight we have no house, it's bombed & I got in rubble. I saw deaths and I almost died,” she published in late November.

Bana wrote on December 2:  “I am sick now, I have no medicine, no home, no clean water. This will make me die even before a bomb kill me.”