ISIL Forces Children to Join War through Sexual Assault Threats

Rasa - Local sources in Deir Ezzur disclosed that the ISIL is forcing the children in the province to join its ranks by threatening them with sexual assault.

News ID: 423316

Date: 07 September 2016 - 21:42

RNA - "The children who are sent to the warfronts are then again raped by adult terrorists in order to prevent them from fleeing the battlefields," a local source said.

The source noted that the ISIL terrorists take photos and videos from the sexual assault on the children who are fighting alongside them and threaten to release them if they try to flee the battlefield.

According to a UN report on the situation in the region in 2014, more than 25,000 women and children had been taken captive. They are sexually abused and sold into slavery. The ISIL Takfiri group is also suspected of human organs trafficking, the newspaper reported.

In October 2014, media reports said that the ISIL terrorist group was engaged in the sale of abducted Iraqi and Syrian children to Israel.

The ISIL trades people through Israeli intermediaries associated with smuggling, Ria Novosti reported.

Israeli middlemen then sell the children to childless families. Head of the syndicate is an Israeli lawyer who is under protection of some rabbis.

According to Tunisian newspaper Al-Chourouk, one child costs $10,000. The ISIL also sells women, but they cost less compared to children. The ISIL commanders also marry the most beautiful women of those abducted.

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