WATCH: Yazidi Woman Kidnapped By ISIS When She Was 11 and Rescued By IDF in Gaza Is Reunited with Her Family (VIDEO)
Fawzia Amin Sido (R) was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq as a child in 2014 and was rescued by IDF after more than a decade. Image: Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fawzia Amin Sido was only 11 years old when she was kidnapped in 2014 by ISIS and subsequently trafficked to different locations in several countries.
On Thursday, The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sido’s rescue from Gaza, where she had been held captive by Hamas for years.
Fawzia Amin Sido has reunited with her family after more than a decade in captivity. Image: Video screenshot.
Israel’s foreign ministry said Sido was taken from her family during ISIS attacks on Yazidi communities in Iraq in 2014 and sold off to a Gazan man who was visiting Iraq at the time.
