Fawzia Amin Sido was released in the Gaza Strip after an international operation after being held hostage by the Islamic State for 10 years. The young woman had been kidnapped at the age of 11 in Iraq and regained her freedom in a joint operation between the US, Israel and Iraq.
After her rescue, she was transferred to Iraq, via Israel and Jordan. He Israeli army said that he The young woman’s captor died in the fighting fighting with the Palestinian armed group Hamas in Looppossibly during an air raid.
The Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Silwan Sinjareetold Reuters that previous attempts to rescue her over the course of four months failed due to the insecurity situation in Gaza.
Reunion with his family
The Canadian Philanthropist Steve Maman shared a video on social networks showing the young woman reuniting with her family in Iraq.
In a post on X, Maman said: “I promised him to the Yazidi Fawzia, who remained a Hamas hostage in Gaza, that he would return her to her home with her mother in Sinjar. It was unimaginable to her, but not to me; my only enemy was time. “Our team reunited her a few moments ago with her mother and family in Sinjar.”
According to Foreign Affairs Iraq, Fawzia is physically well, but has been traumatized by her long time in captivity and the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Who are the Yazidis
The belonging of the young woman responds to the yazidisa religious minority who live, mostly, near Iraq and Syria. In 2014 the jihadists of Islamic State took over the community of Sinjarin northern Iraq, where They massacred thousands of men and enslaved women and girls. Fawzia was one of them.
The jihadist group Islamic State came to control 88,000 square kilometers of territory between eastern Iraq and western Syria, imposing his authority over almost 8 million people.
In August 2014, IS militants entered the Sinjar region, in northwest Iraq and home to the Yazidis, wreaking chaos and destruction.
Victims of IS
In many villages the yazidis were captured and the men over 14 years old separated from women and girls. Then they killed them and took them away as “spoils of war.”
Some of the Yazidi girls and women who managed to escape said they had been sold or given as a “gift” 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. United Nations assures what IS committed against the Yazidis genocide and multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity.
According to the Iraqi authoritiesmore than 3,500 Yazidis have been rescued or freed and around 2,600 are still missing.
Source: Ambito
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