VIDEO: Heroic mission rescues desperate Yazidis from ISIL

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi air force and fighters with the Kurdish Peshmerga carried out a dramatic rescue mission Monday at Mount Sinjar, taking supplies to desperate Yazidis and bringing some on board to make it safely out.

A CNN crew was on the flight that took baby diapers, milk, water and food to the site where thousands of people have been driven by ISIL, which calls itself the Islamic State.

CNN’s Ivan Watson, who was on the chopper, described the mission as “heroic.”

Teams hurled out bags and boxes of food from as high as 50 feet before approaching the ground. Once the chopper landed, some of the trapped families rushed the helicopter. Soon, numerous people – including babies and the elderly – were packed into the flight.

As it took off, evacuating the sobbing, hungry people, fighters on board had to open fire at the ground in order to make it away from ISIL.

“They flew in shooting; they flew out shooting,” Watson reported.

“There was not a dry eye on the aircraft,” he concluded.

Video of rescue: