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EX500rider

(11,437 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 01:54 PM Oct 3

Yazidi woman rescued from Gaza after decade in captivity

Source: BBC

A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials from Israel, the US and Iraq said.

The Yazidis are a religious minority who mostly live in Iraq and Syria. In 2014 the Islamic State group overran the Yazidi community in Sinjar in northern Iraq, massacring thousands of men, and enslaving girls and women.

The Israeli military said the now 21-year-old's captor in Gaza had been killed during the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas, probably as a result of an air strike.
The woman, identified as Fawzia Amin Sido, then fled to another place in Gaza.

The Israeli military said Ms Sido was eventually freed during a "complex operation coordinated between Israel, the United States, and other international actors" and taken to Iraq via Israel and Jordan.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077nyjo



Those wacky Hamas Freedom Fighters, right? Keeping slaves, how nice
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Jk23

(385 posts)
4. It is ridiculous.
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 09:45 PM
Oct 3

Can't we just admit that cultures that imprison and rape woman and execute gays may not be compatible with progressive thought no matter what The Guardian or Columbia University may say?

EX500rider

(11,437 posts)
8. I think 1 of 2 possibilities...Hamas guy also was a ISIS guy & brought her back...
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 04:03 PM
Oct 4

...or she was traded by a ISIS guy to a Hamas guy (or Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Palestine Islamic Jihad,
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine guy etc)

I also wonder how she got there, smuggled into Jordan, then Eygpt then thru a tunnel or what?

betsuni

(27,255 posts)
9. But ... but ... only Teh West, like, does the bad things like slavery. Must be just a little misunderstanding.
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 05:13 PM
Oct 4
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