People wait at the Cilvegozu border gate with Syria, near Hatay, southeastern Turkey, as an ambulance arrives from Syria, Monday, Dec, 19, 2016. United Nations' Security Council on Monday approved the deployment of U.N. monitors to the Syrian city of Aleppo as the evacuation of fighters and civilians from the last remaining opposition stronghold resumed after days of delays. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

The 7-year-old who tweeted from Aleppo was evacuated with her family

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December 19, 2016 09:43 PM EST

Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old who captured the world's attention by tweeting about life in war-torn Aleppo, Syria, was evacuated with her family.

Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, told CNN that Bana and her family would have a place to resettle in Turkey.

Ahmad Tarakji, president of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), tweeted Monday that Bana and her family were safely evacuated to the Aleppo countryside.

.@AlabedBana and many children arrived to #Aleppo countryside. @sams_usa @UOSSM and partners arr coordinating the response plan there. pic.twitter.com/k3iAohYbFY
— Ahmad Tarakji, MD (@tarakjiahmad) December 19, 2016

Bana's mother, Fatemah, tweeted Sunday, urging Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help negotiate a ceasefire so her family, and so many others, could get out of the city alive.

Bana logged updates from Aleppo on Twitter with the help of her mother.

At the end of November, Bana tweeted saying her family's home had been bombed and she was nearly killed.

Dear @MevlutCavusoglu & @rt_erdogan please please please make this ceasefire work & get us out now. We are so tired. - Fatemah #Aleppo
— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) December 18, 2016

Plans to evacuate thousands of civilians along a 2.5-mile escape route were suspended when ceasefire agreements were violated.

The plans resumed Sunday after a number of buses, which had been deployed for evacuations were set on fire, causing a more than 12-hour delay.

Here's an update from the International Committee of the Red Cross team on the ground in Aleppo:

1. This morning, @SYRedCrescent volunteers with our team evacuated thousands of civilians from Eastern #Aleppo, Foua and Kefraya.
— ICRC Syria (@ICRC_sy) December 19, 2016

2. So far, 75 buses have transported around 5,000 people from Eastern #Aleppo, while 500 people from Foua and Kefraya have been evacuated.
— ICRC Syria (@ICRC_sy) December 19, 2016

3. @SYRedCrescent volunteers & our team will continue throughout the day, & however long it takes, to evacuate thousands more still waiting.
— ICRC Syria (@ICRC_sy) December 19, 2016

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