Girl, 10, whose father was killed by ISIS and watched other kids taken away by terror thugs weeps after she is rescued by Iraqi army
A LITTLE girl whose father was killed by ISIS wept with joy and relief when rescued by Iraqi soldiers after three days without food or water.
She was forced to watch the death cult murder her father, rob her mother and abduct children to become cannon fodder - or worse.
News TV cameras recorded the moment she told the troops: "I'm so thankful to you. I thought you would never come for us.
"We have had no food or water for three days and it was just me and my mother, my father was taken and killed by the terrorists."
'The IS (Islamic State) men have taken away so many children from my village and we don't know what happened to them. Some of them died,
The Iraqi government recently launched an offensive on Mosul, which had previously been a stronghold for ISIS.
Elite Iraqi troops have poured into the area to force out the jihad group in a long-anticipated offensive.
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said he was concerned of reports that the Islamic State was using civilians as a buffer.
He said: “There is a grave danger that ISIL fighters will not only use such vulnerable people as human shields, but may opt to kill them rather than see them liberated.”
The UN has further raised concerns that the hundreds of thousands of people still trapped in Mosul may need to flee the city, sparking a humanitarian crisis.
The right to re-capture the city started just days ago, with the bloody fighting expected to last weeks, if not months.
Civilians have already been killed when the Islamic State bombed a sulphur plant near Mosul earlier this week.
It is understood many others were injured as a result of the toxic smoke issuing from the destroyed plant.
Islamic State militants have launched a rocket and opened fire on an Iraqi convoy near a town that was recently retaken from IS as part of the offensive against militant-held Mosul.
The Iraqi special forces have also returned fire, with the battle highlighting the dangers still present in the area.