Yazidi Woman Rescued From Gaza

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Yazidi woman freed from Gaza in US-led operation after decade in captivity | Reuters

She was kidnapped when she was eleven years old, and has been enslaved for the last ten years.

Wow, oh my god. That poor woman.

She’s been held captive in Gaza for 10 years!
Forced into marriage with a Palestinian ISIS fighter when she was just 11 years old, enduring years of abuse and torture at the hands of her husband's family, far from her own. Just heartbreaking.

This rescue mission highlights the IDF's efforts in combating terrorism and rescuing victims.

Bring all the captives in Gaza home now 🎗️

Poor, poor lady.

It makes me wonder what other dirty secrets the Israeli's will find in Gaza and Lebanon.

Stop using this poor woman as a reason to say it is fine to start wars. If modern slavery is a reason to invade then we better expect to be bombed in UK soon. Shakira Spencer, the victims of the Rooney family, the people convicted just this week of trafficking people from Czech Republic to work in McDonald's.

The middle east situation is extremely complex and I am not getting into the rights and wrongs of it all here. But don't pretend any of it has to do with rescuing one victim from an awful situation. Without the other stuff, they would have left her to it.

Who's said that?

Literally no one.

But rabid terrorist defenders will continue to defend terrorists.

Agreed. The Yazidis have been disappeared. I imagine there are a lot of them enslaved in plain sight in the Gulf states as well.

The Yezidi genocide is one of the great tragedies of our time - I remember it so clearly. How wonderful that this woman had been reunited with her family.

Imagine, she was just eleven. This hardly bears thinking about. Pray that she can get back peace and a good life with her family. I remember at the time how terrible it was with ISIS capturing Yazidi girls. It is good Iraq is trying to get them back. It must be very difficult.

It’s appalling, that mans family and friends knew what he had done, they must have done.

I’m glad she’s free, she was just a little girl when she was taken, I can’t imagine what she’s gone through.

She’s been a slave since she was 11. Have some compassion, it’s ok to centre the victim of a crime, and this crime is slavery and the rape of a child.

I am sure I read her original captor returned to Syria and was killed. She was continually held by his family- civilians in Gaza and continued to be kept as a slave.
Strange that. And how we seen hostages left with civilians who continue to keep them captured with no compunction or desire to hand them over.

It's great that she has been rescued and returned to her family . I wonder what has happened to her children?
I watched a documentary about Yazidi women being forced to abandon their children (with ISIS fathers) if they wanted to return home. So some didn't choose to go home, others had to give up their children and leave them behind.

This is what I read. It's heart breaking A Yazidi mother's heart-breaking choice (bbc.co.uk)

Yeah, I read that a yazidi is only considered a yazidi if both parents are. It’s a horrifying choice to make especially when your children are the product of rape. I imagine as well there is an element of stigma around what happened to amlot of these poor girls/women. It’s abhorrent, utterly abhorrent.

Yes, beyond every nightmare.

Oh, this is horrendous.

I can’t imagine her suffering - especially if she has had to leave children behind with her rapist’s family.

That was so difficult to read.

My youngest son is the same age as little Adam when Jovan had to hand him over to the orphanage - I can’t even imagine.

The damage and suffering inflicted upon this community by ISIS is inconceivable.

Pure evil.

What a heartbreaking thing to have happened to her and her children, especially the one who was taken to be adopted.

While I am really happy that she has been freed through US & IDF intelligence agencies and rescue, I have to wonder why they haven’t found & rescued more Israeli & other hostages (some are US and U.K.) or even rescued the US and U.K. citizens still trapped in Gaza that they know who they are and have been pleading for rescue too?

It seems really odd that they were able to find out the identity of a 21 yr old woman that disappeared in Iraq over ten years ago as a child slave, and then rescue her, but still unable to rescue innocent civilians & hostages who’d you think would be much easier to find? As we know all their identities.

This isn’t what happened though.

When she managed to flee her captors, she was able to get in contact with Iraqi officials.

Iraqi officials had been in contact with the woman for months and passed on her information to U.S. officials, who arranged for her exit from Gaza with the help of Israel.

I think others will be able to answer this better than I can, but isn’t it because Hamas, and the other Jihadi terrorist groups that have bought hostages off Hamas (like the Bibas boys and their mother), are going to such great lengths to keep the hostages hidden away, particularly in the terror to tunnels? As in, they are for the moment so far out of reach? This hurts my heart to write, but don’t the intelligence services believe that only 50% of the 101 hostages are still alive? Possibly less. Maybe not having that information is also complicating matters.

Apparently Sinwar is, or was, surrounding himself with 15 of the ones he thought were are most valuable in an attempt to save his rotten skin in a raid situation. They must be very hard to locate, to get to surely, for that reason?

Maybe because this poor woman was not seen as “valuable” (as in, they couldn’t use her as leverage) meant the Palestinians holding her were not that bothered about keeping her presence a secret. Hence it was a relatively straightforward operation to execute.

Oh yes, apologies - what @Vivi0 said.

That poor woman at the hands of those demons for 11 years. You cannot imagine the hell anyone held captive there must be going through. Evil

That makes more sense than the media report.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/israel-gaza-news-americans-still-trapped-in-the-war.html