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Isis sex slave kidnapped aged 11 is rescued a decade later thanks to TikTok video

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Fawzia Amin Seydou was 11 when she was kidnapped by Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq .

She was traded between different Isis fighters and repeatedly raped before being taken to a slave market in Mosul .

After a year she was moved to the Syrian city of Raqqa where she was married off to her third captor, a 24-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who she says also belonged to Hamas .

Her escape involved a hasty flight to the border and a diplomatic wrangle to get her home to Iraq .

But it has torn her away from her two young children, who remained behind.

If we had an opportunity to help and try to give her a better future, we should do it, says Brigadier Goren .

Her captor’s brother had been killed in an airstrike and she managed to escape with the family to north Gaza , provided with money and a phone by Maman .

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informal

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English

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40

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possibly offensive

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