Gaza: The girl who was kidnapped by Islamic State at the age of 11 and who was released after spending a decade in captivity
image Source, reuters
- Author, Zahra Fatima
- Author title, bbcnews
Young Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido is freed after a long captivity.
A woman who was abducted by the Islamic State group (IS) in Iraq at the age of 11 and later transferred to Gaza has been rescued after being held as a hostage for 10 years, according to US, Israeli and Iraqi officials. Is.
The Yazidis are a religious minority who live mostly in Iraq and Syria. In 2014, Islamic State jihadists captured the community of Sinjar in northern Iraq, where they massacred thousands of men and enslaved women and girls.
The Israeli military said the girl’s captor was killed, possibly during an airstrike in fighting with the Palestinian armed group Hamas in Gaza.
After this the girl ran away to another place in the strip.
Israeli military command said this Sido was eventually freed during “a complex coordinated operation between Israel, the United States, and other international actors”. And transferred to Iraq through Israel and Jordan.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Silvan Sinjari told reuters He Previous attempts to save him failed over the course of four months Due to the insecurity situation in Gaza.
He also said that Sido is physically fine, but is traumatized by his long captivity and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
A video shared by Canadian philanthropist Steve Maman shows the young woman being reunited with her family in Iraq.
In a post on the social network I said; My only enemy was time. Our team reunited him with his mother and family in Sinjar some time ago.
image Source, reuters
What happened to the Yazidis?
The Islamic State jihadist group controls 88,000 square kilometers of territory between eastern Iraq and western Syria, brutally overrunning some 8 million people.
In August 2014, IS militants entered northwestern Iraq and the Sinjar region, home to the Yazidis, and caused chaos and destruction.
Yazidis were rounded up in many villages and boys over the age of 14 were separated from women and girls. They then killed them and took them as “spoils of war”.
Some Yazidi girls and women who managed to escape later said they were sold or given as “gifts” to IS members who used them as sex slaves.
It is estimated that Islamic State killed more than 3,000 Yazidis and captured 6,000.
The United Nations assures that IS committed genocide and numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Yazidis.,
According to Iraqi officials, more than 3,500 Yazidis have been rescued or freed and about 2,600 are missing.
And remember you can receive notifications in our app. Download the latest versions and activate them.