Admin I Thursday, Oct. 03, 2024
GAZA – After spending eleven years in Gaza after she was trafficked to Palestine, Fawzia Amin Sido, who is from Yazidi, Iraq is now hiving a sigh of relief.
Sido, who was trafficked into Palestine when she was just eleven was set free in a coordinated operation led by COGAT with the US embassy in Israel.
Fawzia Amin Sido has returned home to Iraq.
“After more than a decade in captivity in Gaza: the IDF led by COGAT, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Israel, rescued a young Yazidi woman held by a Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS in the Gaza Strip,”, the IDF said in a statement, adding “in an operation coordinated by IDF and led by COGAT, with the U.S. Embassy in Israel and other international actors, Fawzia Amin Sido; a 21-year-old woman of Yazidi origin was freed this week from captivity and returned home to Iraq”, the IDF statement said.
The IDF narrated her story:
“About a decade ago, when she was only 11 years old, ISIS terrorists trafficked her to a Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS in the Gaza Strip where she was held in captivity.
“During the “Swords of Iron” war, the terrorist who held her was killed, presumably during IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip, and she fled to a hideout within the Gaza Strip”, the IDF said, adding
“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.
“Upon her entry into Israel, she continued to Jordan through the Allenby Bridge Crossing and from there- returned to her family in Iraq”, the statement said.
This the IDF said further evidence of the connection between the terrorist organization Hamas and ISIS, as well as additional proof of the crimes against humanity committed by the murderous terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.
“The IDF will continue to act to dismantle the Hamas-ISIS terrorist organization, strike terror infrastructure sites, and free all hostages in Hamas captivity.
“The State of Israel will continue to promote humanitarian efforts in cooperation with the international community, in accordance with the values of the State of Israel, which is committed to international law”.
