In an operation coordinated by IDF and led by COGAT, with the US Embassy in Israel and other international actors, Fawzia Amin Sido, a 21-year-old woman of Yazidi origin, was freed this week from captivity and returned home to Iraq.
About a decade ago, when she was only 11 years old, ISIS terrorists trafficked her to a Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS in the Gaza Strip where she was held in captivity.
During Swords of Iron, the war against Hamas in Gaza, the terrorist who held her was killed, presumably during IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip, and she fled to a hideout within the Gaza Strip.
In a complex operation coordinated between Israel, the United States, and other international actors, she was recently rescued in a secret mission from the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom Crossing. Upon her entry into Israel, she continued to Jordan through the Allenby Bridge Crossing and from there - returned to her family in Iraq.... Read More: Arutz-7