Displaced Iraqi girls from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the Iraqi city of Sinjar, stroll at the Khanki camp on the outskirts of Dohuk province, July 31, 2019. Picture: REUTERS/Ari Jalal.

Jewish groups from about the planet commemorated on Tuesday the seventh anniversary of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) genocide of the Yazidi men and women, a spiritual minority in northern Iraq.

On August 3, 2014, Islamist militants seized the community of Sinjar, Iraq, kidnapping thousands of Yazidis and murdering thousands a lot more. The barbarity prompted US President Barack Obama to authorize airstrikes from ISIS forces also threatening American officials close by in Erbil.

The American Jewish Committee identified as it “one of the most horrific atrocities in current historical past.”

“Thousands of Yazidis were killed and taken into sexual slavery by the Islamic Point out. Hundreds extra keep on being lacking to this day,” the AJC reported. “We will in no way overlook.”

The Planet Jewish Congress also marked the anniversary on social media, sharing footage of an interview with a survivor of the atrocity.

“The genocide led to the expulsion, flight and successful exile of the Yazidis from their ancestral land,” wrote the European Union of Jewish College students (EUJS) on Twitter.

The group referred to as the occasions “part of a unfortunate tradition of exclusion, persecution and genocides towards the Yazidi minority in the Center East.”

“While the men and boys had been murdered, the jihadists enslaved and raped Yazidi women and women. All this was