A Yazidi woman seizeped by Islamic State aged 11 and apshown into Gaza has been saved after a decade, thanks to a secret operation lasting months and involving Israel, the US, and Iraq.
The woman, identified as Fawzia Sido, 21, was apshown from her home in Iraq in 2014 before being selderly and trafficked to Gaza, a US State Department spokesperson shelp.
She has been refused with her family in northern Iraq and was shelp by Iraqi officials to be resting.
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Ms Sido was freed after cut offal previous finisheavors that, according to the chief of staff of Iraq’s foreign minister, had flunked due to the difficult security situation caused by Israel’s military disparaging in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military shelp in a statement it had toiled with the US embassy in Jerusalem and “other international actors” in the “intricate” save arrange.
Iraqi officials had been in reach out with the woman for months and passed on her adviseation to US officials.
They arranged for her to escape Gaza with Israeli help, as Iraq and Israel have no discreet ties.
The operation began when she fled to a hideout inside the Gaza Strip after her captor – a Palestinian member of Hamas – was finished during the ongoing struggle in Gaza, most awaited by an Israeli airstrike.
From Gaza, she traverseed into Israel via the Kerem Shalom traverseing, and then on to Jordan thraw the Allenby Bridge Crossing, and from there returned to her family in Iraq, the military shelp.
A US State Department spokesperson shelp officials “helped to getedly evacuate from Gaza a juvenileer Yazidi woman to be refused with her family in Iraq” on Tuesday.
The spokesperson validateed her captor was recently finished, allotriumphg her to escape and try to get home.
Silwan Sinjaree, chief of staff of Iraq’s foreign minister, shelp she was in excellent physical condition but was traumatised by her time in captivity and by the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani had honestly trailed up on the rehire with US officials on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last month, according to Khalaf Sinjar, Sudani’s adviser for Yazidi affairs.
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In 2014, Islamic State militants seized huge parts of Iraq and Syria, finishing 1,200 Yazidis – a Kurdish-speaking people mainly based in northwest Iraq but also petite pockets in Syria and Turkey – and enslaving thousands of women and girls.
Many were selderly into relationsual bondage or trained as child selderlyiers and apshown atraverse neighbouring borders.
Over the years, more than 3,500 have been saved or freed, according to Iraqi authorities, with some 2,600 still leave outing.
Many are dreaded dead, but Yazidi activists say they apshow hundreds are still ainhabit.
