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GAZIANTEP, Turkey — “We could hear their voices threatening to rape women and girls and arrest all the men,” said Fatima al-Ansari, a Syrian woman from Bustan al-Basha Street in eastern Aleppo. Ansari told Al-Monitor, “The people of Aleppo are coming to terms with the idea of death, aware that we could end up dying here. The world needs to know that we have endured until the last moment. We have endured siege, hunger and shelling.”
Ansari and around 50,000 other civilians, including children and wounded people, were trapped from Dec. 16 to Dec. 19 in the eastern district of the city of Aleppo, waiting in line for evacuation to Aleppo’s western countryside or to the city of Idlib in northwest Syria.
