This is the first time she has spoken since her release. Mia Schem, the former French-Israeli Hamas hostage who was released on November 30 after 55 days of captivity in the Gaza Strip, gave an interview to Israel's Channel 13 television. This was not scheduled to air until Friday evening at 8 p.m. local time (7 p.m. in Paris), but the media spread an excerpt on social networks this Thursday.
We first hear how the journalist asks the 21-year-old young woman about the reasons that motivated her to speak publicly, almost a month after her return to Israel. “It was important to me to tell the truth about the people who live in Gaza, who they really are and what I experienced there,” answers Mia Schem. “I experienced a Holocaust,” she adds, weighing her words.
This French-Israeli woman, who was kidnapped during the Tribe of Nova festival on October 7, also says she was detained by a family. She assures that all members, including children, were involved in the terrorist organization Hamas. “Everyone there is a terrorist,” she emphasizes.
The aftermath of his kidnapping is still visible
In this excerpt from the interview we see a bandage on his right arm. Mia Schem was seriously injured during her abduction and had to undergo surgery in the Gaza Strip. On October 16, she appeared in a Hamas propaganda video with her arm in a sling. “I am in Gaza, they treated me, the operation took three hours and everything is fine,” she said. She later said she was operated on by a veterinarian.
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Mia Schem has already expressed her resistance to the bloody attacks of the Palestinian terrorist movement. A few days after returning to her loved ones in Israel, the young woman published a photo on her Instagram account in which she has a new tattoo: “We will dance again.” » She wrote in the caption: “I will never forget it . 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. » According to the Israeli army, 129 hostages are still in the Palestinian enclave, up from around 240 kidnapped on October 7th.