Harrowing images show starving toddlers pulled from Mosul’s ruins after their ISIS fanatic parents blew themselves up
Soldiers are still sifting through the ruins of the Iraqi city in a bid to find those left behind by the terror group
THEIR parents are dead but the "feral" children ISIS militants dumped to die are paying the price for their actions.
Iraqi Army soldiers are still sifting through the ruins of Western Mosul in a bid to find those left behind by the terror group's killers.
During their grim search, they found children crawling in the rubble eating scraps of raw meat - of an unknown origin.
One dirt-covered toddler - named Amina - was only found when troops heard cries coming from beneath the rubble.
She said her parents were both "martyrs" probably killed in one of the many murderous suicide bomb attacks which rocked the Iraqi city.
Questions are now emerging about what to do with these children and the hundreds of other ISIS relatives.
For now, many of them are imprisoned in a rubbish strewn encampment east of Mosul, where the last people to be displaced from the city have been taken.
"All the men were killed," said 62 year-old Umm Hamoudi, who fled the Midan district last week with 21 members of her family - all women and children.
Her husband, an ISIS member, was wounded in the fighting for the old city. They tried to carry him off the battlefield but he was too heavy, so they left him there to die.
Leaflets threatening militants' families have now appeared in areas retaken from ISIS, and vigilantes have thrown grenades at their homes.
"Revenge is not a cure," said Ali Iskander, the head of the Bartella district where the camp is located.
"These families should undergo rehabilitation courses"
Local authorities in Mosul recently issued a decree to exile ISIS families to camps so they can be rehabilitated ideologically.
Umm Hamoudi's daughter was only 14 years old when her father married her off to a elder militant.
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He was killed around a year ago while the girl was pregnant with her first child, who lay sleeping on the floor of one of the camp's tent, oblivious to the stigma that will cloud the rest of his life.
Umm Suhaib, 32, last heard from her husband two months ago. "He is certainly dead," she said, showing no emotion.
She threatened to leave him when he joined ISIS around one year after the group took over, but did not because of their four children.
A devout Muslim, her husband was seduced by the idea of a modern-day caliphate, and offered his skills as an engineer.
He came to regret his decision, Umm Suhaib said, but by then it was too late.
"He wasted his life and threw ours away with it," she said. "We are lost now."