In an interview Ezidxan, one of the YJŞ (Shengal Women's Units) commanders who are taking active part in the operation to liberate Raqqa, said they will avenge the killing of Ezidis in 2014.

Ezidxan recalled the genocidal attacks of ISIS on August 3, 2014 against Shengal and said: "The Shengal genocide was the genocide of the Ezidis and women. ISIS abducted hundreds of Ezidi women to Raqqa city. Women were sold at the market places of Mosul. ISIS gangs attempted to terminate our Ezidi community regardless of any age".

Dersim said until now thousands of civilians have been rescued in special operations. Dersim Ezidxan also said that currently heavy clashes are taking place in the Mirur and El Berid neighborhoods and continued: "We are advancing step by step in the city of Raqqa and are continuing to take revenge for every single Ezidi woman."

Commander Ezidxan stated that they will strike in response to the barbarity of the ISIS gangs that ravaged Shengal and Syria, those thugs hard and liberate the city, and ended with following words: "Our goal is to finish the terror of ISIS in the city of Raqqa and avenge the Ezidis and all of the humanity. Ezidi women need to demonstrate the more a stronger defense. Women will always and everywhere resist with their own free will and identity."