Hostage kidnapped by ISIS at age 11 — and then held by Hamas for 10 years — is freed in operation led by US, Israel

A young hostage kidnapped by ISIS terrorists at age 11 and then held by Hamas for a decade has been rescued by Israeli forces in Gaza after a months-long operation led by the US, officials said Thursday.

Fawzia Amin Sido, 21, was freed earlier this week, with footage showing her being embraced tightly by her emotional family soon after touching back down in her native Iraq.

“Fawzia, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at just 11 years old, has finally been rescued by the Israeli security forces,” tweeted David Saranga, the director of the digital diplomacy bureau at Israel’s foreign ministry. -- More...

lelemSLP: Fawzia Amin Sido was kidnapped by ISIS in 2014 at age 11, sold to Palestinian in Gaza and held by him for 10 years. She was finally rescued by IDF and by @stevemaman , the 'Jewish Schindler' who is raising money to rescue young women taken as slaves by ISIS.

"I made a promise to Fawzia the yazidi who was hostage of Hamas in Gaza that I would bring her back home to her mother in Sinjar. To her it seemed surreal and impossible but not to me, my only enemy was time. Our team reunited her moments ago with her mother and family in Sinjar" writes Steve.

It makes me so happy, I'm crying. I saw information about the efforts to save this woman months ago, but it wasn't allowed for publication then, because she was still in Gaza and it was dangerous.