21-year-old Mia Schem is a former French-Israeli hostage captured during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. After her release in November, she spoke on Israeli television about her prison conditions.
She was one of Hamas's hostages for 54 days. Mia Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman, was released last November following the October 7, 2023 attack in Israel by the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Speaking to Channel 13, Israeli television, the young woman spoke about her prison conditions in Gaza. 54 days in which she says she experienced hell when she was hit by a bullet in one arm during the Hamas attack on October 7 during the Tribe of Nova festival.
“I was at the festival with Elya. The terrorists started shooting at us, Elya and I were among the first to escape. I was driving and they shot us in the tires.” On October 16, she also appeared in a Hamas video. “I am in Gaza, they treated me, the operation took three hours and everything is fine,” she said.
The French-Israeli woman claims in her interview that she “experienced a Holocaust.” “Everyone there is a terrorist, these are families under the control of Hamas […] I will never forget. The pain and fear, the visions of horror, the friends who won't come back and the ones we have yet to bring back. But we still have to win,” she admits.
Finally, she claims that she was locked up and monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the house of one of her captors, without being able to see the light of day, reports Le Figaro. “I was at his house, his family’s house. His wife was outside the room with the children. That’s the only reason he didn’t rape me.” […] His children came to me like I was a pet.”