A 21-year-old Yazidi woman was rescued from Gaza this week after being kidnapped by Islamic State militants when she was just 11 years old from northern Iraq. Israel, the United States and Iraq reportedly worked together on a months-long operation to facilitate the rescue.
Chief of staff to Iraq’s foreign minister Silwan Sinjaree told Reuters that the woman, identified as Fawzia Sido, was freed after 4 months of failed attempts and complications due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict taking place in the Gaza strip.
A source disclosed that Iraq had reached out to the United States, which then coordinated with Israel to free her from her captors and facilitate her safe return to her homeland. Officials told Reuters that she is now reunited with her family in Iraq and resting after her rescue.
The Israeli military released a statement saying that the person holding her captive had been presumably killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza after which Sido fled and hid in Gaza, awaiting a rescue. “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 statement read. […]
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