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10-year-old Isra was taken hostage along with her family by ISIS militants and used as human shields in their town of Sharqat south of Mosul in August. After three days of fear and suffering from hunger and thirst they managed to escape and hide until they were rescued by Iraqi troops in late September.
Isra says that life was harsh under ISIS, who beat and punished people for any or no reason at all. She hopes that she will never see them again and that schools will reopen soon so she can return to her studies because she is "a good student."
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