2023-12-30 03:26:19
Hostage by Hamas for 54 days, Franco-Israeli Mia Schem recounted her captivity and her “fear of being raped” by her jailer, during an interview on a private Israeli television channel broadcast Friday evening.
“There is the fear of being raped, the fear of dying, the fear of… just fear,” the 21-year-old said in Hebrew on Channel 13. After being kidnapped on October 7 while While she was at the Tribe of Nova music festival on the edge of the Gaza Strip, she explained that she had been held in the house of one of her captors.
“His children came to see me as if I were a pet”
“I was in 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,” she said, explaining that her captor never took his eyes off her. “His children came to see me like I was a pet,” she added.
During her captivity, she remained “locked up”, “in a dark room”, “forbidden to speak”. Wounded by a shot during her kidnapping, she said she had “no painkillers”. The young woman was the first hostage to appear on a video released by Hamas on October 16.
“I didn’t sleep during those 54 days, maybe an hour a night,” because “how can you sleep when a terrorist is looking at you, examining you?” “, she confided. “There are no innocent citizens there,” she also accused, claiming that all families in Gaza are part of Hamas.
Abducted at the Nova festival
She also said that the area where the house in which she was held was located had been bombed. “The windows were blown out,” said the young woman, adding that she had “confidence in the Israeli army.”
On Saturday, October 7 in the morning, Mia Shem participated in the Tribe of Nova festival with her friend Elya Toledano, 27, also Franco-Israeli. “I was at the festival with Elya,” she said, recounting her kidnapping: “the terrorists started shooting at us, Elya and I were among the first to flee. I was driving, they shot us in the tires (…) One of them looked at me and shot me in the hand.”
She was released on November 30 by Hamas, during the truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement. As for her friend Elya, kidnapped like her, the Israeli army announced his death on December 15.
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