She is thought to be 24-year-old woman Zehra Duman from Melbourne, who made headlines in 2014 when she travelled to Syria to become a jihadi bride.
The woman, who is currently at Al Hawl refugee camp in Syria, refused to confirm her identity but has demanded to be allowed home with her 6-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son, who she said are unwell.
“I want to go back to my country. I think everybody’s asking for that because I’m an Australian citizen,” she told an American humanitarian worker in a video interview obtained by ABC.
“The kids don’t need to suffer. My kids have a right to be treated like normal kids,” the woman said, while adding that she understood the move could anger Australians.
Scores of jihadi brides have been left scattered and displaced after ISIS was defeated last year, and many now remain in Syrian refugee camps.
The 24-year-old said she had been attempting to leave ISIS for two years, but didn’t have the money to do so and feared she would be killed if she were caught.
“It’s very dangerous to leave like that. If you get caught from one side or the other side, it can put you into a lot of trouble,” she explained.
“Nobody understands that you cannot leave that place without money, and no money is allowed to be sent in, so you’re kind of left in a hole.”
She said unless she returns to Australia, her daughter’s life is in danger.
“Both of my kids are sick. [My daughter is] very malnourished, she’s … very skinny. I have no money, I’m not allowed to have money, they don’t give us food here and they don’t let us contact our families.”
“My daughter needs milk and I don’t have money to buy her milk. I don’t know what to do now,” the 24-year-old said.
It is believed the woman’s story matches that of Duman, who at 19 travelled to Raqqa, the ISIS Syrian capital, to wed Australian fighter Mahmoud Abdullatif, according to ABC.
It comes as Duman’s mother told “SBS Dateline” her daughter had sent her a message from Al Hawl refugee camp in Syria.
“US + Australia, how does it feel that all 5 of us were born n raised in your lands, & now here thirsty for ur blood?” Duman tweeted.
“Our husbands die in frontlines but that doesn’t stop women in the west from sending their husbands to kill kuffar. Attack: UK AUS & US,” another tweet reads.
He added that those who go overseas to “join up with terrorists” must “take responsibility.”
“The great tragedy is how children get caught up in the crimes against Australia of their parents.
“I’m not going to put any Australian at risk to try to extract people from those situations,” he told reporters.
“I don’t have the same sympathy for the parents who have taken them to fight in a war zone—especially to fight on the ISIS side. You make your bed, you’ve got to lie in it, ” opposition leader Bill Shorten added.
The news follows the reported death of British ISIS bride Shamina Begum’s newborn son last week, after her citizenship was revoked by Home Secretary Sajid Javid in February.
“The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany, and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial.
“The caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them,” he said in a tweet last month.
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