Freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem speaks about captivity • FRANCE 24 English

Mem was reunited with her family after being released by Hamas in a swap deal on November 30th now a month on back in Israel the 21-year-old is speaking out about her ordeal I didn’t sleep for the entire 54 days maybe an hour night how can you sleep when a terrorist

Is looking at you watching you the French Israeli former hostage told Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 that she was held at a family home in Gaza it’s families that are under heras control I suddenly realized that I was with a family I started asking myself why am I

At a family’s house everyone there is a terrorist Shem said her food was sometimes restricted during those seven weeks during which she was scared of being raped or killed I was in a dark room not allowed to talk not allowed to be seen or heard hidden away there’s a terrorist watching you 24/7

Looking at you raping you with his eyes his wife was outside the room with the children that was the only reason he didn’t rape me most likely if we were alone Shen was abducted on October 7th from the Nova festival with her friend Elia todano he was found dead in Gaza in mid

December her still hold in 129 of the 240 hostages the militants took on October 7th when they also killed 1,200 people since then Israel’s offensive has killed some 21,000 Palestinians and driven nearly all of the anklav 2.3 million people from their homes

A former hostage held in Gaza by Hamas, Mia Schem, has given her first interview to Israeli media, since she was released a month ago.
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45 comments
  1. It doesn't look that you are harm in any way ? It seems that they looked after you very well and treated you like a member of their family although you are supposed to be treated as hostage and tortured. I am sorry that they didn't do any modeling competitions there, but with this evil heart that you have you wouldn't have won anyway

  2. Q: How many Jihadists and their supporters does it take to make intelligent statements?

    Answer: None because they don't have a brain to make intelligent statements.

  3. Heartbreaking 😢 Mia is amazing strong and smart young lady. I hope she will forget this nightmare as soon as it is possible

  4. She's the kind of girl that all parents warn you not to get involved with. Deceptive, manipulative, mental issues, and likely evil-hearted.

    When seeing her picture weeks back it looked like H*mas punched her lips swollen. Instead those carp fish lips are just what she naturally has.

  5. Now she knows how Palestinians have felt in the last 75 years under Apartheid Israel…

    Only when the criminal Israeli right-wing government is brought down and a just two-state solution is in place will everyone have peace. We all need to pressure our politicians to support this.

  6. Hard to believe Hamas father would stay in 8 × 8 room for 54 days. Couldn't they block the window? Was it a high rise building?

  7. Just image about thousands in Israel brutal bars..no voice for her.
    Glad she is returned in good condition not with broken limbs n tortured as released palestinees

  8. Channel 13 has 30 minute interview. Very different story. Says she was operated on in a hospital and given sedation! Not by a vet. says she formed a special relationshio with her captor to be a friend and he revealed he didnt love his wife! Jealous wife sometimes would not brjng her food due to their relationship. She was moved to different house with 4 Hamas soldiers and she sent them to the grocery store and cooked them her favorite meal. They respected her and called her by a special name then. So This French tv story gives total wrong impression.

  9. Completely different statement to the one she gave before in which she says they were very well looked after. This one is obviously written for her.

  10. She said everything, everyone in Gaza is terrorist. She wasnt raped but still she talks about her imaginary story in her head. She was treated the best in the circumstances created by Israel. At least she was treated, given food, clothing and somewhere to sleep. Did anyone raped her? No. Sorry fir you had to pass through abduction but in the other side no one cares about children of Palestine being abducted and held in prisons in very harsh concditions and actually being raped and denied basic human rights

  11. Wonder how much money they offered to pay her to lie on tv. I mean it’s Israel we’re talking about. They lie more than they breathe

  12. Wow ,thank God Mia is fine and most probably the only hostage taken by Palestinian freedom fighters speaking true because we are sick of hearing all other hostages only speaking good words and wishing peace and freedom for these Palestinian peoples and resistance fighters also know as terrorist by Western and European media .Mia could you please tell us why it takes more then 1 months to speak the truth and why other hostages are not allowed to speak in public like you ?
    Anyway France 24 thanks for being unbiased like CNN,BBC,FOX ,MSNBC and other big corporate media houses. We trust you .keep it up.

  13. She really went through hell. This is not her full interview but even in her full interview I think there is alot of details she did not share probably and I don’t think it will be easy to.

    She is a selfless girl, she went through so much yet she only broke down because her friends are still under Hamas hostage 😢💔

  14. There never was such P state; the Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestina (with an 'a' at the end), but in reality, it was always the Land of Israel.

  15. "They are all terrorists" If you say something like this in Germany against a group of people you will see the jail from inside for inciting racial hatred!!!

  16. To find the full interview, just search youtube for "Freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem in first interview since her release from Hamas captivity in Gaza" Israel's channel 13 released it with Subtitles.

  17. This says more about her than her captures. She’s actually damaging the Israeli cause and risking her life and the life of the other hostages. Completely cringe.

  18. What a made up story… they never had a wife or kids there…this is just B .S to justify the massacre of Palestinian kids ..civilians! !
    There is NO WAY the world will believe this….
    It doesn't make any sense …

  19. Too much editings…no full interview. Okay. No new information. But that "the whole family is terrorists"…it's funny when you finish watching the video and found out the wife was her secret angel guarding over her.

    You don't politely insert implications like that into an edited and cut interview like that. You do it sarcastically like how I did it.

    The media outlets are really showing their colours and not doing their jobs in reportings facts and revealing the truths.

    And funny how the terrorist with a weapon was absolutely loyal to his wife…to the point that when the wife was watching him, he would behave well and did not touch the girl; while the wife was not watching, he was ready to attack the girl…WHAT KIND OF TERRORIST IS THAT? 😂

    The man is just a wife lover, give that man a break. The girl is clearly imagining too much. 😂

  20. I watched her full interview and I kept listening to her and waiting to hear about the 'awful' things that were done to her. Almost everything 'bad' about the people that she encountered sounded like her interpretation of things and says more about her psyche and her preconceived notions about them than anything else. Everything they did, no matter how banal or subtle, she kept twisting and interpreting as manipulative or dark. Sure she may have been teased by a kid with a bag of candy, I'll give her that, but again, everything she describes seems so small (if true) and like her own twist on the 'intentions' of people. When they called her to see her mom on TV, it helped her, and yet she says that they 'intended' to mess with her. It's her prejudice. Her mind's filters. She didn't provide any concrete behaviour of them really mistreating her. It just seems that she's so entitled and privileged and expects to feel no discomfort in such a situation. A captivity situation is inherently bad, scary and uncomfortable; it's not a vacation at the Ritz. And in theory, no one should go through it, yes. But the fact is, they could have actually ab*sed her in every possible way, because they had total control over her but they didn't (which I am glad they didn't of course, but this doesn't seem to change her racism and preconceived notions about them). And her accounts of supposedly 'sexual-ized' contact with them are so flimsy and appear more like what a self-obsessed, good-looking teenager says of every guy she meets. It's laughable how the music changed when she said one of them touched her upper body… drama build up…. and then it turns out he was checking her injury. Yes, believe women, but not all women. Some women lie. Some women misinterpret. Some women are racist. Also, some of the uncomfortable things she experienced were related to her country's drones (e.g. lack of windows etc., not an intention to ab*se her) and the lack of medical supplies and food that was inflicted on the entire population there by her government. Again her privilege, entitlement, lack of empathy and obliviousness shine through as she doesn't seem to think that there's anything wrong with partying a few miles away from a refugee population whose land she took and that had been starved for decades by her government. She's completely unaware that the only reason she found herself in that situation is because the people who committed those acts against her have thousands of their loved ones rotting in her country's prisons for decades and that the only way to get them out, thanks to her government and their record in the past, is the one that was used against her.

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