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An 11-year-old girl was kidnapped by the Islamic State, an Iraqi girl was released after 10 years in Gaza (VIDEO)

2024-10-03 23:19:15Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
An 11-year-old girl was kidnapped by the Islamic State, an Iraqi girl in Gaza is released after 10 years

A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq more than a decade ago has been freed from Gaza in a US-led operation. The operation carried out this week also involved Israel, Jordan and Iraq.

The 21-year-old is a member of the Yazidi religious minority


and has been identified as Fauzia Amin Shido. Silwan Sinjari, the Iraqi foreign minister's chief of staff, said she was released after more than four months of efforts, some of which failed due to the difficult security situation in Gaza.

Iraqi officials had been in contact with the girl for months and passed her information on to US officials, who arranged her release from Gaza with Israel's help. The director of the digital diplomacy office at Israel's Foreign Ministry, David Saranga, posted the footage on the X app.

The girl was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq and taken to Gaza at the age of 11. The girl's abductor had been killed during the war in Gaza, possibly by an Israeli attack, and she then fled to a refugee shelter. The young woman has now been reunited with her family in northern Iraq.

More than 6,000 Yazidis were captured by Islamic State fighters in Iraq's Sinjar region in 2014.

Many were sold as sex slaves or trained as child soldiers and sent across borders, including to Turkey and Syria.

Over the past few years, more than 3,500 of them have been rescued or released, while around 2,600 people remain missing.

The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious group of indigenous origin in Kurdistan – a geographic region that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.


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