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2024-10-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Yazidi Woman Kidnapped By Isis In 2014 At Age 11 Rescued From Gaza, Reunited With Family In Iraq
Happy news. May this be a good omen for the 10/7 hostages, too.
[IsraelTimes] A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq in 2014 at the age of 11 and transferred to the Gaza Strip has finally been rescued and reunited with her family.

Unverified posts on social media say that Israeli security forces carried out the rescue operation.

In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry says that the woman, Fawzia Amin Sido, was released through joint efforts “in high coordination” with the US embassies in Baghdad and Amman along with Jordanian authorities.

Jewish philanthropist Steve Maman, dubbed by some as the “Jewish Schindler,” shares a video of her reuniting with her family last night.

“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 writes 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.”



… Her story is a reminder of the brutality faced by Yazidi children, taken without a choice.

Remember, there are still 101 Israelis being held hostage in Gaza.

#Yazidi #Hamas #ISIS #Gaza
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-10-03 08:47|| || Front Page|| [11168 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 Resilient

Yazidi girl who was kidnapped in 2014 aged 11 and 'sold' as an ISIS bride in Iraq before being trafficked to Gaza is RESCUED after ten years - as video 'shows emotional reunion with family'
Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-03 12:38||   2024-10-03 12:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Here is how Rudaw — our Kurdish news source based in Iraq — reports the story today. Note that there is no mention whatsoever of the Jewish Canadian philanthropist or Israel:

Fawzia Amin Sido “was released through joint efforts between the Foreign Ministry and the National Intelligence Service,” a statement from Iraq’s foreign ministry said, adding that she is from al-Qahtaniya in Nineveh’s Baaj district.

The area near Shingal (Sinjar) was taken over in August 2014 by the ISIS group. Sido was transferred to several countries “before her liberation,” the statement added.

“Fawzia was with an ISIS militant who is from the Gaza Strip in Palestine. The militant has been killed. It has been four years since the mother of the killed militant has taken Fawzia to the Gaza Strip with herself,” Sarab Elias, director general for Survivors Affairs at the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, told Rudaw.

Elias said that after obtaining “important information” they determined her location in the Gaza Strip, and repatriated her from Jordan.

An advisor to the Iraqi prime minister said that information obtained from Rudaw was key.

"We first got information through Rudaw about the kidnapped Yazidi girl in the Gaza Strip when she appeared on Rudaw and talked about her being Yazidi and being in Gaza," Khalaf Shingali, PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's advisor for Yazidi affairs, told Rudaw on Thursday.

Shingali said that when they saw the woman, they immediately began efforts to rescue her by establishing communication channels and identifying her location. They remained in contact with her until she was brought to Jordan and then back to her Iraq.

Her rescue was carried out in coordination with Iraq’s foreign ministry, the National Intelligence Agency, the American embassy in Jordan, and Jordanian officials, according to Shingali.

Intelligence and foreign ministry officials were “in high coordination with the U.S. embassies in Baghdad and Amman, and the Jordanian authorities, after efforts and follow-up that lasted for more than four months,” the foreign ministry’s statement said.

As of Wednesday, Sido was returned to her family and is in Shingal, according to Elias.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-03 14:41||   2024-10-03 14:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Good news at last. A slave was freed!
Posted by Anon1 2024-10-03 22:52||   2024-10-03 22:52|| Front Page Top

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