2024-01-03 20:55:08
A 21-year-old French-Israeli girl who was kidnapped by the terrorist organization Hamas told during a dramatic testimony “the only reason” why, according to her, the man who watched her during captivity did not rape her.
Mia Schem was going to a music festival in southern Israel when Hamas militants stormed the venue on October 7. More than 300 people died and dozens were taken hostage. She was only released on November 30 during a week-long ceasefire.
In an interview broadcast on Israeli television Channel 13, Schem said she was captured following getting out of her friend’s burning car. She said that her captor He started touching her upper body. and only stopped when she screamed and he realized she had been shot in the arm and was seriously injured.
“I started screaming, going crazy“, said. “There were burned vehicles, bodies.”
During her captivity, she was held in a house with a family and watched 24 hours a day by her father, she said. She also explained that the man’s constant glances made her feel uncomfortable and afraid that she would try to hurt him.
Mía Schem was kidnapped by Hamas.
“His wife was outside the room with the children,” the young woman said, adding: “That was the only reason he didn’t rape me”.
Furthermore, he said that the man’s wife did not like him and sometimes denied him food for several days in a row.
Schem’s shocking account adds to the assertion of the Israeli authorities, who stated that sexual violence was part of the Hamas incursion into southern Israel and accused the international community of downplaying or ignoring the victims’ pain.
Schem gained notoriety in the international media when Hamas released a video of her in captivity days following being taken hostage. In the video she appears lying in bed while someone bandages her right arm and she says that she wants to go home. At that moment, it was the first sign of life for the hostages.
Schem also said that she barely slept while she was detained because she was terrified, and that she didn’t shower or receive medication either. She said the children of her captor came in from time to time to look at her “as if she were a zoo animal.”
Mía Schem during her captivity following being kidnapped by Hamas.
She spent the last days of captivity in a tunnel, where she was held with other hostages. During that time, she said she knew she would soon be released.
She explained that she was kept with six or seven people in a small room and that she only received one piece of Arabic bread a day. She says that he feels guilty for the other hostages that he left behind.
The young woman, who broke down in tears during the interview, stated that she still has a hard time assimilating her return while processing the terrible experience she had to live through. “I can’t get it out of my head“, said.
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