An Israeli official says a Yazidi woman kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq has escaped a decade later from Gaza.
A Yazidi woman kidnapped from her home by ISIS terrorists in Iraq when she was just 11 years old has been reunited with her family after years stranded in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Iraqi and Israeli officials said Thursday.The woman, identified by Iraq's Foreign Ministry as Fawzia Amin Sido, now 21, was abducted along with thousands of other Yazidi women from northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in August 2014.
The Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday that the operation was led by the defense ministry's Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories in collaboration with the US Embassy in Israel.The Iraqi Foreign Ministry did not mention Israeli involvement in its statement, but said Sido had been freed 'through joint efforts between the Foreign Ministry and the National Intelligence Service' in coordination with the U.S.
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