21-year-old Yazidi woman Fawzia Sido, who was kidnapped by Islamic State in Iraq and freed from Gaza, seen at Lalish Temple. (IMAGE: @pmg2e5jg/X)
Fawzia Amin Siddo, a Yazidi woman, was rescued from captivity by Gaza and was taken hostage and sexually tortured by ISIS terrorists during the terror group’s rule.
Fawzia Amin Siddo, a Yazidi woman who was rescued from captivity in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the US Embassy, told a British documentary filmmaker that after Islamic State terrorists kidnapped her along with many other Yazidis, they fed meat to the Yazidi babies.
Speaking to Alan Duncan, the documentary filmmaker who also served in the British forces and volunteered with the Iraqi Kurds, Fawzia said she was taken hostage by ISIS along with her younger brothers at the age of nine.
Since 2014, ISIS has systematically targeted the Yazidi community in Iraq, committing mass murder, sexual slavery, forced conversion and displacement. Thousands of Yazidis were killed and many women and children were kidnapped.
Fauzia is a member of this ancient religious minority, found mostly in Iraq and Syria, which saw more than 5,000 members killed and thousands more abducted in a 2014 ISIS campaign that the United Nations said amounted to genocide.
“They told us they would give us food. They made rice and gave us meat to eat with it. The meat had a strange taste and some of us had stomachaches afterwards,” Fauzia told the director, according to sun and on Jerusalem Post.
“When we finished, they told us it was the meat of the Yazidi babies. They showed us pictures of decapitated babies and said “these are the children you ate now”. One woman suffered heart failure and died shortly after. The mothers of these babies were also there. A mother recognized her own baby because of his hands,” she said.
Fawzia was returned to her family in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. Sinjar and many areas of northern Iraq were under ISIS control until coalition forces defeated them in prolonged battles, wresting territory from their control. However, ISIS, despite becoming weak, still remains active in West Asia and parts of Africa.
More than 6,000 Yazidis were captured by Islamic State fighters from Iraq’s Sinjar region in 2014, with many sold into sexual slavery or trained as child soldiers and taken across borders, including to Turkey and Syria.
Over the years, more than 3,500 have been rescued or freed, according to Iraqi officials, with about 2,600 still missing.
Many are feared dead, but Yazidi activists say they believe hundreds are still alive.
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