Fawzia Amin Sido, a Yazidi woman, was only 11 years old and living in Iraq when she was captured by” a Arab Hamas-ISIS part” and brought to Gaza. For ten years, she endured terrible care, including rape and stabbings.
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She was rescued on Thursday in a” complex activity” involving the IDF, the U. S., Jordan, and different countries. On Friday, she was driven in a U. S. military car to Jordan and finally, house to Iraq where she happily reunited with her community.
The Jewish security forces have suddenly saved Fawzia, a Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at the age of 11.
For decades, she was held hostage by a Arab Hamas-ISIS part.
She has then reunited with her immediate community. Her tale is a… photograph. twitter.com/nkVotqYdov
— David Saranga ( @DavidSaranga ) October 3, 2024
A decade ago, ISIS viciously and carefully hunted Yazidis. They were treated accordingly by the terrorists because they saw them as being less than animal.
Fawzia-style trafficking and servitude of some Yazidi members was carried out by ISIS. People were brides for ISIS soldiers. Some, along with the men, were merely butchered.
It is impossible to deny the suffering Fawzia endured. She was repeatedly trafficked to various experts in various different nations.  ,
” We ended up in Al-Hol camp ( in Syria ) before we were smuggled to Idlib in 2019, and from there, we went to Turkey. In 2020, they arranged a card for me in Turkey so I had travel from Istanbul to Hurghada, Egypt, and then to Gaza”, she said.
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She told CNN that she stayed in Rafah where living was “unbearable”.
” Hamas constantly harassed me due to my Yazidi background and contact with my family, even going so far as to format my phone]erase its contents ] during their studies. After a month, they moved me to a host home”.
When the war broke out in Gaza in 2023, she says she moved around quite often. Finally, on October 1, she was rescued by an NGO.
The IDF said that her abductor was killed, “presumably during IDF strikes” in Gaza, allowing her to escape to a sanctuary, from where she was rescued and taken to the Kerem Shalom border cross.
Fawzia did not mention a strike when she spoke to CNN about it, only claiming that she was saved by an NGO in Rafah, which she could n’t recall the name of.
” From there, American officials took me and helped transfer me to Baghdad”, she said.
According to Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, “her new captor’s dying in Gaza allowed her to escape.”
” We were contacted by the Iraqi authorities, who was made aware of the fact that she escaped, that she was alive, and that she wanted to come home to her home. And we were instructed to do everything in our power to free her from Gaza and bring her home by the Iraqi authorities. So we have collaborated with a number of our colleagues in the area over the past few months to get her out of Gaza,” Miller said at a press conference on Thursday.
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According to Miller’s account, Fawzia spent a few weeks avoiding bombs in Gaza before being suddenly saved by an NGO.
This young lady is a victim. It speaks a bit about the human heart and the incredible courage of this lady to accept ten years of torture and abuse before having the wits to live in a battle zone.