BEIRUT — Syrian state media is reporting Friday from areas newly captured during a government ground offensive in the besieged eastern Aleppo enclave, showing restorations of roads, removal of debris from the battered areas and resettlement of civilians.

The U.N. humanitarian aid agency said an estimated 31,500 have been displaced following government advances into the rebel-held enclave this weekend, in one of the most dramatic shifts in the conflict now in its sixth year. Most of those displaced fled to government and Kurdish held areas in western Aleppo, separated only by roads and deserted buildings.

Many were also displaced inside rebel-held parts of the city, cramming into already crowded and damaged areas in south and central eastern Aleppo.

From the government-controlled areas, state broadcaster al-Ikhabirya TV showed hundreds of displaced people sitting on rain-soaked streets. They also showed newly-displaced residents lodged in empty buildings pockmarked with bullets, fresh laundry hung between. The state-owned channel showed dozens of the displaced people waving Syrian flags from green government buses.

The Syrian government has been keen to show it is restoring normalcy to the shell-shocked community following the swift restoration of government control to areas held by the opposition for four years. Syrian officials visited the newly-captured areas as workers were filmed clearing debris.

An Ikhbariya broadcaster said work is underway to soon reopen a road linking the eastern and western parts of the city, disused for years. He also interviewed newly-resettled residents, who spoke of rebel abuses.

One displaced woman interviewed in the government-held Jibreen district said her son was shot dead as he fled rebel areas. The woman, who didn’t give her name, said she would carry a gun to avenge her son’s killing. She praised the Syrian army and said that while in rebel-held areas her family had no food or drink and was treated badly.

“My son Bashar died hungry,” she said in tears.

Others interviewed in the newly captured Hanano district complained of being mistreated on suspicion of cooperating with the Syrian army, including one who said he was detained. One resident complained of lack of heating facilities in their new settlement.

Opposition and activists had also accused the government of shelling displaced Syrians who were fleeing the government advances. At least 50 people were killed in artillery shelling in the rebel-held district where to which they were fleeing.

The Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that a total of 26,500 people fled to government-held Jibreen, east of Aleppo, and Kurdish-held Sheik Massoud. Another 5,000 were displaced within eastern Aleppo.