A Yazidi woman has been rescued from the Gaza Strip by US efforts, and an activist calls her story the most difficult and tragic case of her life.
The US State Department said it had successfully rescued a Yazidi woman named Fawziya Saydo, who was kidnapped by ISIS fighters for 11 years after the attack on Sinjar.
According to VOA, the woman was taken by US ambulance from Gaza to Israel, then to the US embassy in Jerusalem, then to Jordan, and yesterday by plane to Baghdad, where she was flown to Mosul by an Iraqi intelligence team . . . .
Fawzia was kidnapped in 2014 at the age of 10, treated as a sex slave, given to a Palestinian ISIL fighter and later had two children, the report said.
Steve Maman, a Jewish activist who works on the issue of Yazidi and Christian abductees at the hands of ISIS, said Fawzia's case is the most difficult and tragic case he has ever worked on They were a major obstacle to his rescue.
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