Fawzia Amin Sido (b. 2002/2003) is a Yazidi woman from northern Iraq who was captured by the Islamic State (ISIS) as an 10-year-old child during the Yazidi genocide in 2014. She was held in captivity for a decade and subjected to continuous physical and sexual abuse.
Initially she was forcibly married to a Palestinian ISIS militant in Syria, who sexually and physically abused her, resulting in having two children, before age 15.[1] After the ISIS militant was killed, his family asked her to travel with the two children to the Gaza Strip. In 2023 the family's home was hit by an airstrike, and she fled to a shelter elsewhere in the Gaza Strip.[2] The IDF claim that the strike killed a "Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS" who was holding her captive.[3]
Sido leaving the Gaza Strip was complicated by Iraq not having diplomatic relations with Israel.[1] She was eventually allowed to enter Israel, then escorted to Jordan by US officials, and ultimately reunited with her family in Sinjar, Iraq. Media report indicates that the United States, Israeli, Iraqi, and Jordanian governments collaborated in her evacuation from the Gaza Strip. Her two children remain in Gaza.
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