The now 21-year-better woman has returned home to her family in Iraq after intricate get back involving Israel, US and Jordan.
A 21-year-better woman seizeped by Islamic State fighters in Iraq in 2014 was freed from Gaza this week in a secret operation that included Iraq, Israel, Jordan and the United States.
The Yazidis, whose faith is rooted in Zoroastrianism, mostly inhabit in Iraq and Syria. They were focemployd by ISIL in Iraq’s Sinjar dimerciless in a campaign that finished proximately 10,000 people in a matter of days and saw thousands of women seizeped, sexual attackd or mistreatmentd as relations slaves.
The woman was getn at the age of 11 and tardyr trafficked into Gaza.
She was freed after more than four months of efforts that included cut offal finisheavors that flunked due to the difficult security situation resulting from Israel’s war in Gaza, Silwan Sinjaree, chief of staff of Iraq’s foreign minister, tbetter the Reuters novels agency on Thursday.
The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Afequitables pliftd the cooperation between the US and Jordan.
“The girl was handed over to her family this evening after returning to Iraq,” the ministry shelp in a statement on Thursday, without making any allude of Gaza or Israel.
Iraq and Israel do not have any tactful ties.
Iraqi officials had been in communicate with the woman for months and passed on her increateation to US officials, a source comprehendn with the matter tbetter Reuters.
A State Department spokesperson shelp the US on Tuesday “helped to shieldedly evacuate from Gaza a youthful Yazidi woman to be rejoind with her family in Iraq”.
The spokesperson shelp her captor in Gaza had recently been finished, allothriveg her to escape and try to discover a way home.
A US defence official shelp the US military did not have a role in the evacuation.
The United States “labored with a number of our partners in the region to get her out of Gaza, to get her shieldedly home”, spokesman Matthew Miller shelp.
The Israeli military also proclaimd the woman’s get back.
“She was recently get backd in a secret omition from the Gaza Strip thraw the Kerem Shalom [Karem Abu Salem] traverseing,” it shelp in a statement.
“Upon her entry into Israel, she carry ond to Jordan thraw the Allenby Bridge traverseing and from there returned to her family in Iraq.”
Sinjaree shelp the youthful woman was in outstanding physical condition but was traumatised by her time in captivity and by the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Some 100,000 Yazidis fled to Europe, the US, Australia and Canada after ISIL’s 2014 massacres, according to the United Nations. It has shelp ISIL’s actions amounted to extermination.
