A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials said.
The 21-year-old, identified as Fawzia Amin Sido, was freed this week in an operation that involved Israel, the United States, and Iraq.
The Yazidis are a religious minority who mostly live in Iraq and Syria. In 2014, Islamic State militants took over the Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, killing and displacing thousands of men and enslaving girls and women in a series of crimes that the United Nations has said constituted genocide.
