Northeastern Syria Administration hands over Five Yazidi ISIS-survivor women to their families
Hasakah – North-Press Agency
Delsoz Yousuf
The Yazidi Council in Al-Jazira (a council in charge of Yazidi affairs in north-eastern Syria) handed over yesterday five Yazidi ISIS survivor women and one Yazidi child, who were earlier been freed by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the Council of Shangal (Sinjar) in Iraq in order to send them back to their families.
The handover took place on Thursday at the Yazidi House in the village of Barzan in the northern countryside of Hasakah, with the attendance of figures from the Yazidi Council and Shangal Yazidi Council, as well as representatives of the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria.
Ziyad Avdal, the co-chair of the Yazidi House in the province of Al-Jazira (an administrative division comprising the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli), told North-Press that these Yazidis were taken back from Al-Hawl and Ein Issa camps and from the town of Hajin in Deir ez-Zor in coordination with the Autonomous Administration and the security forces.
Avdal stated that the number of kidnapped Yazidis, who have been handed over to their families since the control of SDF over Al-Bagouz, has so far reached 270 people.
It’s worth mentioning that the Islamic State (ISIS) had kidnapped about 6.417 Yazidis during the attacks on the region of Shangal in Iraqi Kurdistan in summer of 2014. The fate of half of them is still unknown, SDF had retaken hundreds of Yazidis during its military campaigns against ISIS during their control over the province of Raqqa and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.