Fawzia Amin Sido

Fawzia Amin Sido (Kurdish: Fewziya Emîn Seydo, فەوزییە ئەمین سیدۆ, Arabic: فوزية أمين سيدو) is a Kurdish Yazidi woman from northern Iraq. She was captured by the Islamic State as a 10-year-old child, during the Yazidi genocide in 2014. She was forced into a physically and sexually abusive marriage with a Palestinian militant in Syria, birthing two children before the age of 15. Her husband was killed and she was smuggled to the Gaza Strip in 2020, remaining in captivity by his family and Hamas. During the Gaza war in 2023, an IDF airstrike destroyed the family home, and she fled alone to a shelter further in the Gaza Strip. The IDF said that the airstrike killed her captors. Sido leaving Gaza was complicated by the tensions between Iraq and Israel. However, she was allowed to enter Israel, where American officials escorted her to Jordan, and then reunited with her family in Sinjar, Iraq. Media reports indicate that her rescue was a collaboration between the United States, Israeli, Iraqi, and Jordanian governments.