An Israeli airstrike that killed a Palestinian member of Hamas in Gaza actually had an added benefit. Not only is the world better off for the removal of one more terrorist, in this case it also freed a young girl who had been kidnapped from her family and sold as a slave when she was just 11 years old.
Like myriads of other Yazidi women and children, M. was kidnapped from her home town in Kurdistan, and a long ordeal followed which included being incarcerated and “sold” in Raqqa, Syria, where she was forced to marry a Palestinian man from Gaza who was apparently affiliated with Hamas.
During her time with the ISIS/Hamas militant, M. was constantly harassed and mistreated physically and sexually, and her family has seldom heard from her since her abduction.
M. became pregnant and gave birth to her husband’s two children at a very young age, and at some point, after moving…
