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Fawzia Amin Sido

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Fawzia Amin Sido is a Yazidi woman who was captured by ISIS in Iraq during the Yazidi genocide, when she was ten years old. She had two children with an ISIS militant who enslaved her. After her children's father died, his family talked her into moving to the Gaza Strip with her children. In 2024, when she was 21 years old, the Israeli Air Force bombed the home where she lived with his family, and she escaped. The war made it difficult to leave the Gaza Strip, but she eventually returned to her family in Iraq in early October.[1][2]

Background

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Yazidi genocide

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See the main article: Yazidi genocide

ISIS committed genocide against the Yazidi people in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017.[3][4][5] They killed 3000 to 5000 men and teenage boys,[6][7] and they sold 6000 to 10,000 Yazidi women in slave markets.[8][9][10][11] Sometimes young boys were also sold as slaves.[12]

The Yazidi community quickly welcomed the Yazidi women who had been taken as slaves, but they rejected the children who had been born as a result of sexual slavery and from genocidal rape.[13][14]

ISIS in the Gaza Strip

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The IDF and Israeli government often say that Hamas and ISIS have a lot in common or work together, but most people who study terrorism say Hamas and ISIS are very different and attack each other.[15][16] Hamas and ISIS disagree about a lot of things.[17]

In 2017 two Hamas guards were killed by an ISIS bomber at Rafah crossing, when the guards were trying to stop him getting into Egypt.[18] Hamas responded by arresting supporters of ISIS in the Gaza Strip.[19][20] In 2018, Palestinians who had joined ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula "declared war on Hamas".[21] One of their goals was to free one of their members from a prison in the Gaza Strip.[22]

Capture

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When Fawzia was nearly 11 years old she was captured by ISIS and sold as a slave to one of their militants. The militant who bought Fawzia was a Palestinian foreign fighter from the Gaza Strip.[23] There were 30,000ַ foreign fighters who joined ISIS.[24] She was forced to marry him and she gave birth to two children feathered by him.[25]

Tavel to the Gaza Strip

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The ISIS militant who bought her died in Syria.[26] After he died, his family pressured her to move to the Gaza Strip and bring the children to live with the family.[27] Fawzia took the long journey to Palestine because she worried her own family and community would not accept the children of the ISIS militant.[28][29][30]

Fawzia and her children arrived in the Gaza Strip in 2020.[31][32]

Disagreement about how she left the Gaza Strip

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The government of Iraq approached intermediaries asking that she be evacuated from Gaza.[33]

In 2024, during the Israel–Hamas war she left the Gaza Strip and returned to her family in Iraq. Diplomatic conflict between Israel and Iraq complicated the process of her return home.[34]

The IDF claimed that a person who was holding her captive had died in the war in Gaza in 2024.

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  • "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces the liberation and receipt of a kidnapped Yazidi woman through joint efforts".

References

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  1. ↑ "Yazidi sex slave rescued from Gaza in rare, internationally collaborative mission". Voice of America. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "Yazidi woman rescued from Gaza after decade in captivity". www.bbc.com. 3 October 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  3. ↑ Labott, Elise; Kopan, Tal (17 March 2016). "John Kerry: ISIS responsible for genocide". CNN.
  4. ↑ "UN accuses the "Islamic State" in the genocide of the Yazidis". BBC. 19 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "The UN has blamed 'Islamic State' in the genocide of the Yazidis". Радио Свобода. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 19 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Cetorelli, Valeria; Sasson, Isaac; Shabila, Nazar; Burnham, Gilbert (9 May 2017). "Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household survey". PLoS Medicine. pp. e1002297. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002297.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  7. ↑ "Ten years after she was captured by Isis, 21-year-old Yazidi woman is finally freed". The Independent. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  8. ↑ "Yazidi women fear return to a broken land of rubble and brutality". www.bbc.com. BBC. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  9. ↑ "Ten years after she was captured by Isis, 21-year-old Yazidi woman is finally freed". The Independent. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  10. ↑ "Islamic State persecution of Yazidi minority amounts to genocide, UN says (+video) - CSMonitor.com". web.archive.org. 8 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "Isil's Yazidi 'mass conversion' video fails to hide brutal duress". The Telegraph. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  12. ↑ "I'm Not a Monster (Series 2)". BBC Radio 5 Live. BBC. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  13. ↑ Dana Taib Menmy (24 March 2021). "'We do not accept those children': Yazidis forbid ISIL offspring". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  14. ↑ "Yazidis to accept ISIL rape survivors, but not their children". Al Jazeera. 29 April 2019. Yazidi's typically only recognise children as belonging to the community if both their parents hail from the sect.
  15. ↑ "MES Insights, vol. 14, no. 6". www.usmcu.edu. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  16. ↑ "Why the flag found among Hamas equipment isn't necessarily Islamic State". ISD. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  17. ↑ "MES Insights, vol. 14, no. 6". www.usmcu.edu. December 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  18. ↑ "Hamas guard killed in rare suicide attack in Gaza Strip". Arab News PK. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  19. ↑ "Hamas guard killed in rare suicide attack in Gaza Strip". Arab News PK. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  20. ↑ "Hamas militant killed by suicide bomber in Gaza". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  21. ↑ "What Effect ISIS' Declaration Of War Against Hamas Could Have In The Middle East". NPR. 15 January 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  22. ↑ "What Effect ISIS' Declaration Of War Against Hamas Could Have In The Middle East". NPR. 15 January 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  23. ↑ "Yazidi sex slave rescued from Gaza in rare, internationally collaborative mission". Voice of America. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  24. ↑ "Ten years after the Sinjar massacre, Yazidi survivors demand justice". SBS News. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  25. ↑ "Yazidi sex slave rescued from Gaza in rare, internationally collaborative mission". Voice of America. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  26. ↑ Lior Ben Ari; Yoav Zitun (3 October 2024). "Yazidi woman kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq rescued from Gaza by Israel". Ynetnews. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  27. ↑ "Yazidi sex slave rescued from Gaza in rare, internationally collaborative mission". Voice of America. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  28. ↑ "Yazidi sex slave rescued from Gaza in rare, internationally collaborative mission". Voice of America. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  29. ↑ Dana Taib Menmy (24 March 2021). "'We do not accept those children': Yazidis forbid ISIL offspring". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  30. ↑ "Yazidis to accept ISIL rape survivors, but not their children". Al Jazeera. 29 April 2019. Yazidi's typically only recognise children as belonging to the community if both their parents hail from the sect.
  31. ↑ "Ten years after she was captured by Isis, 21-year-old Yazidi woman is finally freed". The Independent. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  32. ↑ "Yazidi woman captured by ISIS rescued in Gaza after more than a decade in captivity". CNN. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  33. ↑ "Ten years after she was captured by Isis, 21-year-old Yazidi woman is finally freed". The Independent. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  34. ↑ "Yazidi sex slave rescued from Gaza in rare, internationally collaborative mission". Voice of America. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
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