'Like the Jewish people, we have always survived. These experiences inspire us to hold onto our culture and identity,' Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad said at the Knesset.
'I know that like the Jewish people, we have always survived. These experiences inspire us to hold onto our culture and identity,' Yazidi refugee Nadia Murad said at the Knesset.
Nearly every area freed from ISIS control has unmasked new mass graves, a testament to ISIS' brutality, human rights violations and crimes against humanity.
The Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued its first report last week in which it accused ISIS of crimes against humanity. The UN estimates that some 5,000 Yazidi men were killed by ISIS terrorists and thousands more people, mostly women and children, were taken into captivity.
An ISIS video showed a boy beheading a Syrian soldier under an adult terrorist's supervision. Another showed 25 children unflinchingly shooting 25 captured Syrians.
Israel has joined the international relief effort to help the Yazidis, Christians and other refugees who are fleeing from the Islamic State (ISIS). The support is coming through IsraAid and their partners who are distributing emergency supplies.
An Israeli aid organization has sent relief to Yazidis and Christians fleeing Islamic State oppression and has further plans to help them survive the winter.
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