Video of a 2017 interview with Yazidi Iraqi lawmaker Vian Dakhil conducted by Egyptian channel eXtra news describing Islamic State (IS) atrocities recounted to her by victims has been miscaptioned as showing an Israeli woman who escaped Hamas in 2023. In the clip she weeps as she talks about the crimes perpetuated by IS against Yazidi women and girls. The Yazidis are a religious minority in eastern Syria and northwestern Iraq who were victims of genocidal attacks by IS during 2014 and the enslavement of 7,000 Yazidi women and girls. On Oct. 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in broadcast remarks that the crimes committed by Hamas mirrored those of Islamic State. The interviewee is Yazidi Iraqi MP Vian Dakhil discussing crimes committed by IS against Yazidi women and girls, not an escaped Israeli woman talking about Hamas.

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Persons: Vian Dakhil, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, Read Organizations: Islamic, Twitter, Facebook, Middle East Media Research, Washington DC, ISIS, Hamas, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Washington, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Islamic State