Jerusalem/Cairo, Oct 3 (EFE).- The Israeli Army announced this Thursday the rescue of a Yazidi woman of Iraqi origin who had been kidnapped ten years ago and, since then, remained in the Gaza Strip held by a militant from Hamas with links to the jihadist group Islamic State (NO).
In a statement, Israeli forces explained that the militant died during the war in Gaza, possibly as a result of an Israeli bombardment, and the woman, identified as Fawzia Amin Sido21 years old, then took the opportunity to flee.
“In a complex operation coordinated between Israel, the United States and other international actors, she was recently rescued in a secret mission from the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing”the Army said, specifying that she was later transferred to Jordan and, finally, to Iraq, where her family is.
The Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2018 and founder of the NGO Nadia’s Initiative, which helps Yazidi women who were sexual slaves of IS in Syria and Iraq, stated on her official X account that “this Yazidi girl was kidnapped by IS in 2014”.
«After the fall of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria (2017 and 2019, respectively), IS moved it to Gaza. She is not the only one held in Gaza by ISIS. “In the last ten years, Iraqi authorities and the international community have failed to rescue captive Yazidi women and girls in Gaza, Syria and other parts of the region,” he said.
Hours earlier, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced that it had received the Yazidi kidnapped Fawzia Amin Sido, “who was freed thanks to the joint efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Intelligence Service, in coordination with the United States embassies in Baghdad and Amman, and the Jordanian authorities, after more than four months of efforts and monitoring«.
The young woman, the Ministry said, was kidnapped by “IS terrorists and transferred to several countries before being released”without mentioning what places he was.
The Israeli Army published two photos where you can see a woman with her face erased in a place that looks like the Kerem Shalom crossing towards Gaza, where trucks with humanitarian aid have been piling up for months due to the difficulties in distributing it in the territory, subjected to constant attacks from Israel.
More than 41,700 people have died, most of them women and children, and the bodies of thousands remain buried under the rubble in the devastated Palestinian enclave, after almost a year of incessant Israeli offensive.EFE
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