Israel rescues Yazidi woman from Gaza after her kidnapping by ISIS at age 11

Fawzia Amin Sido was sold by the terror group to a Gazan man in 2014; now 21, she has been reunited with her family in Iraq

Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido (R), who was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq in 2014 and then transferred to Gaza, Oct. 3, 2024, seen back in Iraq after being rescued recently by Israeli security forces. Iraq made no official mention of Israel’s role. (Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs) A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped from Iraq by ISIS in 2014 at the age of 11 and trafficked to the Gaza Strip has been rescued and reunited with her family. The rescue and return home of Fawzi Amin Sido was announced separately by the foreign ministries of Israel and Iraq. Israel’s foreign ministry said Sido was taken from her family in 2014 amid ISIS attacks on Yazidi communities in Iraq, as the terror organization known for its brutalities took control of vast swaths of the country. She was then sold off to a Gazan man who was visiting Iraq at the time. Israeli security forces recently extracted Sido and returned her home. In a later statement, the Israel Defense Forces, said that Sido was rescued in a complex operation coordinated by the IDF’s COGAT and the US Embassy in Jerusalem, together with “other members of the international community.” The IDF said that the “terrorist who had been holding her” was recently killed, apparently in an Israeli strike during the fighting in Gaza, allowing her to flee to a hiding place in Gaza. “The young girl was extracted from the Gaza Strip in recent days in a secret operation through the Kerem Shalom crossing. After crossing into Israel, she was taken to Jordan via the Allenby Crossing and then on to her family in Iraq,” the IDF said.

The military said the incident provided further proof of the “connection between the Hamas terror group and the Islamic State and further evidence of the crimes against humanity that the murderous terror group was carrying out in Gaza.”

In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Sido had been released through joint efforts “in high coordination” with the US embassies in Baghdad and Amman along with Jordanian authorities. It made no mention of Israeli involvement. A US State Department spokesperson said the US on October 1 “helped to safely evacuate from Gaza a young Yazidi woman to be reunited with her family in Iraq.” The spokesperson said she was kidnapped from her home in Iraq at the age of 11 and sold and trafficked to Gaza. Her captor was recently killed, allowing her to escape and seek repatriation, the spokesperson said.

Jewish philanthropist Steve Maman, dubbed by some as the “Jewish Schindler,” shared a video of her reuniting with her family Wednesday night, and alluded to his involvement in her release.

“I made a promise to Fawzia the Yazidi who was hostage of Hamas in Gaza that I would bring her back home to her mother in Sinjar,” Maman wrote on X. “To her, it seemed surreal and impossible but not to me, my only enemy was time. Our team reunited her moments ago with her mother and family in Sinjar.”

NN: Funny how this story has gotten little press coverage. It would upset the snowflakes WOK, LGBT BINARY Commie Mssss Harris FOGOTS who are advocating for the “peace loving” Hamas savages.