EXCLUSIVE: ISIS Survivor Shares Harrowing Story of Captivity and Escape
The survivor escaped in late 2023 after a Hamas fighter holding her was killed in an Israeli airstrike
Aug. 7 2026, Published 6:00 a.m. ET
Kidnapped by ISIS thugs at age 10 and forced into s-x slavery, an Iraqi girl endured hellish years of rape and torture, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Fawzia Amin Sido was torn from her home in August 2014 and sold to five different men from Syria, Saudi Arabia and Gaza, with each one abusing her physically and mentally.
Survivor Recalls Years of Abuse
An Iraqi girl endured years of abuse after being kidnapped at age 10.
"To them, I was not a human being with feelings, dreams or a family," she said. "They sold me, gave me orders and controlled me. They tied me up, beat me, raped me and electrocuted me."
Fawzia's last owner was 24-year-old Palestinian jihadist Abu Amar al-Makdisi, who forcibly married her and drugged her into having s-x.
"He gave me the drug and I cried. The worst thing that could happen to a woman in this world happened to me," said Fawzia, who gave birth to two children while her captor abused her and took a second wife.
After Syrian Democratic Forces defeated ISIS in late 2018, al-Makdisi fled and was later reported dead.
Eventually, jihadists smuggled Fawzia and her children into Turkey.
Years of Abuse Continued
The survivor and her children were later taken to Turkey and then Gaza.
In 2020, al-Makdisi's relatives got her into Gaza, where they treated her like a "domestic slave" and imprisoned her for months in a place with no windows.
"No one cared whether I was alive or dead," she says. "I was a lost girl. I was forced to do absolutely everything. I did not feel like a human being; rather, I felt like a piece of property."
Depressed and lonely for her family, she repeatedly tried to kill herself and her Hamas-linked captors forced her into a mental health clinic.
"Over time, I became more and more psychologically ill and afraid of everything called Hamas because they were the ones who handed me over to the hospital," Fawzia said.
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Authorities rescued her from captivity in late 2023.
After the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, Fawzia worked at Gaza's main hospital as a slave.
"All hospitals were used as Hamas bases," she said. "There were weapons everywhere."
Eventually, she secretly recorded a TikTok video describing her plight and an escape plan was put in motion.
She escaped in late 2023 after a Hamas fighter holding her was killed in an Israeli airstrike and she was rescued by a combined operation of Israeli intelligence and U.S. authorities.
Now 23, Fawzia – who has no idea what happened to her children – lives in Germany under humanitarian protection and said: "When I realized I was free, the feeling was indescribable. Freedom after years of captivity feels like something unrealistic."
