Steve Maman, popularly nicknamed the “Jewish Schindler” for his efforts to rescue and aid thousands of Yazidi refugees, calls on Netanyahu to lend a shoulder and assume responsibility for aiding M.
However, the presence of an estimated 50,000 Islamic State fighters and their families across the border in Syria in detention centers and camps stokes fears of history repeating itself.
Little is written today about Sunni Islamist and jihadi organizations in the Middle East, as the contest between Shia Iran with its proxies and Israel is the central strategic process in the region.
The defendant and her husband, were both found liable for the girl’s death when evidence showed that the girl had been chained to a tree by the husband and left to die in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
The woman disclosed that she endured rape and forced marriage to IS fighters before being transported to al-Hol in 2019.
While many Yazidis have been saved, the community continues to live in displaced persons' camps and does not receive much international assistance.
A Yazidi man currently in Cyprus tells ‘The Jerusalem Post’ of his travel, survival and the woes of his community.
The jihadist group killed thousands of Yazidis, enslaved 7,000 and displaced most of the 550,000-strong community from their ancestral home.
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