News Center-The Women's Defense Units (YPJ) has announced in a statement that they rescued two Yazidi women and a child abducted by ISIS in Shengal on August 3, 2014. The women identified as Ezîze Xalid Elî(25), Tawaf Dawûd Çeto (24) and the child identified as Xwunav were abducted by ISIS and the child was only two months old when she was abducted by ISIS, according to the statement.

 Ezîze Xalid Elî from the Kocho village of Shengal was rescued from al-Hawl camp while Tawaf Dawûd Çeto from the Til Ezer village of Shengal was caught trying to escape on the Syrian-Iraqi border, the statement said, noting that the child named Xwunav was raised by Ezîze Xalid Elî.

“The Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) has rescued hundreds of Yazidi women since 2014,” said Lena Hisên, Spokesperson of the YPJ Foreign Affairs Office. “The people of Shengal have faced and resisted dozens of genocidal attacks. The Yazidi women have paid the heaviest prices of these genocidal attacks. In 2014, ISIS committed a genocide against the Yazidi community, abducting and raping thousands of Yazidi women and selling them in slave markets. As the YPJ, we, of course, see the protection of Shengal and the rescue of Yazidi women as our primary duty. We have worked carefully to rescue the Yazidi women held captive by ISIS for years.”

‘Revenge against ISIS’

“On the anniversary of the Yazidi genocide, the rescue of Yazidi women is our greatest success and revenge against ISIS,” YPJ Spokesperson Ruken Cemal said, adding, “The YPJ will make great efforts until rescuing all abducted Yazidi women.”