ERBIL — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that it has liberated another #Yezidi# young woman from Islamic State (IS) sleeper cells inside the al-Hol camp in northeast of Syria.
On August 3, the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) rescued an 18-year-old Yezidi woman from the al-Hol camp during Operation Humanity and Security, a SDF statement said.
The SDF and other local security forces on August 25 swept nearly 50% of the camp, capturing 121 Islamic suspects, among whom were also 15 women.
Wafaa Ali Abbas, 18, was originally from Kocho village in Sinjar, where the extremist group massacred villagers there during the Yezidi Genocide that it launched in August 2014.
Waffa, who was only nine years old when she was abducted by the Islamic State, said in a statement: ISIS members took us first to Mosul, then we were transferred to Raqqa where we had been repeatedly raped, enslaved, and sold out in slave markets.
After a series of marriages, I got married to the seventh one when I arrived at the camp, she said, noting after arriving in the camp, she was kept prisoner by IS cells in the camp, the statement added.
In August 2014, the Islamic State attacked Sinjar, where it killed hundreds of civilians and abducted over 6,000 others. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has already liberated nearly half of the abductees.[1]