TRIGGER WARNING: Yazidi woman recalls harrowing time as sex slave, says was fed meat of dead...

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A Yazidi woman who was recently released from Gaza is recounting the harrowing time she had while being in the captivity of ISIS. Fawzia Amin Saydo was kidnapped by Islamist terrorists at the age of 11 from her home in Iraq and was later trafficked to Gaza.

They took several more children and women with them and killed their babies.

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Talking to The Sun, she recalled that after being taken away, they were starved for four days. They were then given plates of food containing meat and rice. After being without food for days, they ate whatever was offered but soon started feeling sick.

In a horrifying testimony, she told the publication that the terrorists informed them that what they had eaten was "meat from the babies".

"When we were done, they told us that the meat was from the babies," Fawzia said, recalling how a woman had a heart attack and died right then as soon as she heard this.

The terrorists further showed them pictures of beheaded children and babies, and allegedly said, "These are the kids you ate."

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She says that a woman recognised her baby from the photos by his hand.

Yazidi womanwas sold and trafficked

Fawzia Amin Saydo was kidnapped in 2014 and kept as a sex slave by ISIS in Syria. A year later, she was married off to a 24-year-old Palestinian ISIS supporter, according to Israeli media reports.

In Raqqa, she gave birth to two children. Her husband was killed in 2019 in the Euphrates River Valley after which she and her kids were sent to the Al-Hawl camp in northern Syria. Nearly 10,000 people lived in the notoriously grim conditions here at the time.

The IS then smuggled her to Turkey where she lived with her dead husband's family. She says she was subjected to horrific treatment here, being beaten regularly and not allowed to move around. From here she was sent to Gaza via Egypt in 2020.

Woman left behind two children

Her German lawyer Zemfira Dlovani said that in Gaza, her children were taken away from her. However, some reports suggest that she left them behind in order to escape since she knew the Yazidi community won't accept them because they were a product of rape.

In August 2023, Fawzia managed to send out a plea for help on the internet. In a TikTok video, she said, "I hope you can rescue me from this place... If anyone comes and enters Palestine, no matter the location, I will go to them."

A complex operation to rescue her was organised led by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and Cogat, the Israeli agency that works in Gaza and the West Bank.

"The young girl was extracted from the Gaza Strip in recent days in a secret operation through the Kerem Shalom crossing,"the IDF said in a statement earlier this month.