Freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem has broken her silence to share a harrowing account of captivity in Gaza, following her release at the end of last month.

Schem, 21, spent 54 days as a prisoner in the Palestinian enclave after being shot and taken hostage at the Nova festival massacre in southern Israel on October 7, before finally being released as part of a ceasefire and swap on November 30.

In her first interview since her release, she told Israeli outlet Channel 13 'I wanted to project the real situation about the people living in Gaza, who they really are and about what I've been through over there.'

'I went through a holocaust,' she said. 'Everyone over there is a terrorist.'

Schem, a French-Israeli tattoo-artist from Shoham in central Israel, claimed that she was held with a civilian family, with children, while in Gaza. 

'It is families under the Hamas regime, you know. I realised that I was staying with a family. And then I start asking myself questions… why am I staying with a family? Why are there children here? Why is there a woman here?'

Before she was freed, she was made to film a video speaking about her experience, in which she said: 'People very good, very kind to me... Food good and the kindness and everything good.'

The report was made headlines as it contradicted accounts of other hostages who recounted abuse in captivity, prompting concerns she had been made to speak against her will.

Mia Schem became one of the most high-profile captives after Hamas released a video in the early days of the conflict showing her recovering from surgery.

In the clip, Schem said in Hebrew that 'everything is fine', that she received medical treatment for injuries, and pleaded for her release.

 

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23 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

'Everyone over there is a terrorist.'

Schem, a French-Israeli tattoo-artist from Shoham in central Israel, claimed that she was held with a civilian family, with children, while in Gaza. 

'It is families under the Hamas regime, you know. I realised that I was staying with a family. And then I start asking myself questions… why am I staying with a family? Why are there children here? Why is there a woman here?'

 

This girl went through hell as have most of the hostages if not all of them, in fact she's one of the lucky ones.

 

Also in The Times of Israel.

 

Mia was one of the girls who Hamas released a video of with her saying everything is fine, they are treating me well....blah blah blah. The pro Hamas supporters jumped on this to say how well treated they all were by the terrorists. All these vidoes were obviously made under duress and here we have Mia confirming it.

 

"A day after the surgery, she told Channel 13, she was forced to film a propaganda video which Hamas released a few days later: “They told me to say that they were taking care of me and treating me… You do what you’re told. You’re afraid to die.”

 

Freed hostage Mia Schem: ‘I experienced hell. There are no innocent civilians in Gaza’

His wife would bring her husband food, “and not bring me food,” she recounted. “A day, two days, three days, I wouldn’t eat… She was so terrible, she had mean eyes. She was a very evil woman.”

On one occasion, she said, “I was choking back tears,” and her captor looked at her and said “‘Enough, or I’ll send you to the tunnel.'”

Schem told Channel 13 that there was a television in the house, and at one point she saw her mother appear on TV, “and I saw my mother being strong, and I said ‘who am I to break?'”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/freed-hostage-mia-schem-i-experienced-hell-everyone-in-gaza-is-a-terrorist

 

Been through a holocaust?

 

Was she beaten, starved, forced to work 16 hours a day, had all her hair cut off?

 

She should visit any real holocaust museum in Germany to see what the results of a holocaust are really like.

 

If there was little food or water the blame the people who stopped food, water, electricity, medical supplied to over 2 MILLION Palestinians, 1.9 MILLION have no homes, little food and water for themselves, nowhere safe to go to or stay, and then ask WHO is responsible for that situation. where injured men, women, children and babies are dying in overcrowded hospitals where there are NO medicines, power and water at all. Compare that with her life in Israel.

 

Please spare me your BS about who started killing who, and face the reality of millions of people who had little to start with and have nothing now.

 

It is boring, repetitive and meaningless.

34 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Been through a holocaust?

 

Was she beaten, starved, forced to work 16 hours a day, had all her hair cut off?

 

She should visit any real holocaust museum in Germany to see what the results of a holocaust are really like.

 

If there was little food or water the blame the people who stopped food, water, electricity, medical supplied to over 2 MILLION Palestinians, 1.9 MILLION have no homes, little food and water for themselves, nowhere safe to go to or stay, and then ask WHO is responsible for that situation. where injured men, women, children and babies are dying in overcrowded hospitals where there are NO medicines, power and water at all. Compare that with her life in Israel.

 

Please spare me your BS about who started killing who, and face the reality of millions of people who had little to start with and have nothing now.

 

It is boring, repetitive and meaningless.

 

@billd766

 

What's boring, repetitive, and meaningless are your posts, in which there are only bad Israelis, and good Palestinians.

Even in a post detailing the what hostage went through, you can't let it go.

She had her arm operated on off by a vet, without anesthesia.

What is wrong with you?

4 hours ago, Morch said:

 

@billd766

 

What's boring, repetitive, and meaningless are your posts, in which there are only bad Israelis, and good Palestinians.

Even in a post detailing the what hostage went through, you can't let it go.

She had her arm operated on off by a vet, without anesthesia.

What is wrong with you?

Another disgraceful flame. You re out of order now. Bill's post was accurate.

5 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

 

If there was little food or water the blame the people who stopped food, water, electricity, medical supplied to over 2 MILLION Palestinians, 1.9 MILLION have no homes, little food and water for themselves, nowhere safe to go to or stay, and then ask WHO is responsible for that situation. where injured men, women, children and babies are dying in overcrowded hospitals where there are NO medicines, power and water at all. Compare that with her life in Israel.

 

 

   Hamas are responsible .

Had they not.................................you know the rest 

5 hours ago, billd766 said:

Been through a holocaust?

 

Was she beaten, starved, forced to work 16 hours a day, had all her hair cut off?

 

She should visit any real holocaust museum in Germany to see what the results of a holocaust are really like.

 

If there was little food or water the blame the people who stopped food, water, electricity, medical supplied to over 2 MILLION Palestinians, 1.9 MILLION have no homes, little food and water for themselves, nowhere safe to go to or stay, and then ask WHO is responsible for that situation. where injured men, women, children and babies are dying in overcrowded hospitals where there are NO medicines, power and water at all. Compare that with her life in Israel.

 

Please spare me your BS about who started killing who, and face the reality of millions of people who had little to start with and have nothing now.

 

It is boring, repetitive and meaningless.

hamas is responsible 100%

8 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Another disgraceful flame. You re out of order now. Bill's post was accurate.

In your eyes maybe, the young lady went through living hell and not knowing if she would be killed, but some posters still find a way to excuse the vile actions of the terrorists.

Shame on you!

12 minutes ago, Wobblybob said:

In your eyes maybe, the young lady went through living hell and not knowing if she would be killed, but some posters still find a way to excuse the vile actions of the terrorists.

Shame on you!

Well unfortunately some are either blind and ignorant in a complete state of denial, or are in total support of the terrorist, they have no shame just as what the terrorist did shamelessly. It’s a psychosis mental disorder.

Edited December 30, 20232 yr by novacova

What I like most about these Israel/Hamas threads is that it shows the true nature of individuals. There is no grey area, it’s one or the other.

51 minutes ago, novacova said:

What I like most about these Israel/Hamas threads is that it shows the true nature of individuals. There is no grey area, it’s one or the other.

 

Yeah, nah. There's plenty of people here who blame both sides.

 

In fact, there is not one person here who blames only Israel. None.

Edited December 30, 20232 yr by ozimoron

55 minutes ago, novacova said:

What I like most about these Israel/Hamas threads is that it shows the true nature of individuals. There is no grey area, it’s one or the other.

Exactly, there is no sitting on the fence here:

 

'We know they were raped in Hamas captivity': Chilling details of what hostages faced

Two Israeli doctors, who have been treating released hostages, and an Israeli military official familiar with the matter confirmed to USA TODAY that some released hostages revealed they suffered violent sexual assaults in captivity.

One of the doctors assessed that "many" of the released Israeli female hostages ages 12 to 48 − there are about 30 of them − were sexually assaulted while held by Hamas in Gaza.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/12/20/hamas-sexual-violence-rape-hostages-oct-7/71917113007/

1 hour ago, novacova said:

What I like most about these Israel/Hamas threads is that it shows the true nature of individuals. There is no grey area, it’s one or the other.

Which are you? 

36 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

 

Yeah, nah. There's plenty of people here who blame both sides.

 

In fact, there is not one person here who blames only Israel. None.

I agree, yet there are a few who blame only Hamas. Go figure... 

Just now, Neeranam said:

I agree, yet there are a few who blame only Hamas. Go figure... 

Lying achieves nothing, the majority of posters rightfully blame Hamas!

1 minute ago, Wobblybob said:

Lying achieves nothing, the majority of posters rightfully blame Hamas!

 

Some blame Hamas and some blame both sides. There's nobody else here.

Just now, ozimoron said:

 

Some blame Hamas and some blame both sides. There's nobody else here.

Are you high, what are you talking about, just more of your twisted mish mash that only makes sense to you. Are you blaming Israel for the Palestians invading them and slaughtering innocent civilians, of course you are because that is what you do.

Just now, Wobblybob said:

Are you high, what are you talking about, just more of your twisted mish mash that only makes sense to you. Are you blaming Israel for the Palestians invading them and slaughtering innocent civilians, of course you are because that is what you do.

 

I said I blame both sides.

Just now, ozimoron said:

 

I said I blame both sides.

I don't!

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

 

Yeah, nah. There's plenty of people here who blame both sides.

 

In fact, there is not one person here who blames only Israel. None.

 

@ozimoron

 

That's just you saying stuff, without actually reading these topics.

You've no idea. You're making things up, stating them as facts.

Just now, Morch said:

 

@ozimoron

 

That's just you saying stuff, without actually reading these topics.

You've no idea. You're making things up, stating them as facts.

 

Show me one post from anyone which blames only Israel.

6 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

 

Show me one post from anyone which blames only Israel.

 

@ozimoron

 

You don't read the topics.

You comment on what's appearing in them.

Then you ask for others to bring 'proof'.

You're way out there.

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

I agree, yet there are a few who blame only Hamas. Go figure... 

 

  There are way more than just a few , I would say that the huge majority blame only Hamas for this war . 

  Had Hamas not.................................you know the rest

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

 

She's hardly going to say that she had a wonderful time, is she.

 

 

  Of course she isn't going to say that , because it wouldn't be true .

Do you think that she is lying and that she did actually have a wonderful time being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas ?

6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Excellent post and spared me the trouble of posting one like it myself.

 

She's hardly going to say that she had a wonderful time, is she.

She should be grateful that she wasn't blown to bits by an israeli bomb.

She should be grateful that she wasn't blown to bits by an Israeli bomb.

 

Do you think she should pay them for the privilege of being taken hostage from the music festival, being shot in the arm from close range, taken to a room inside a Hamas complicit hospital for 2 days then being operated on by a vet with no anesthetic whose only words to her were "You will not make it out alive". Perhaps she should have also contributed to the board and lodgings of the terror family she stayed with?

 

Pathetic post from you yet again. Shameful and vile.

 

Should these babies who are still being held also be grateful?

 

 

https://twitter.com/IditAbu/status/1741129508156023041

 

 

 

17 hours ago, Morch said:

 

@billd766

 

What's boring, repetitive, and meaningless are your posts, in which there are only bad Israelis, and good Palestinians.

Even in a post detailing the what hostage went through, you can't let it go.

She had her arm operated on off by a vet, without anesthesia.

What is wrong with you?

I don't blame her one bit for what she said. She went through a horrifying experience. She has license to say whatever she wants to. As for the medical treatment she received, given the horrendous situation for medical care in Gaza, probably she got better treatment than most. 

 

"Many healthcare facilities have been destroyed by Israeli offensives, with only 25 percent of hospitals functioning and only seven of twenty-two UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) health centers operating. Doctors have reported needing to give cesareans without anesthetic and being forced to conduct emergency hysterectomies without the proper medical equipment."

https://www.cfr.org/blog/women-week-details-october-7-reveal-sexual-violence

3 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I don't blame her one bit for what she said. She went through a horrifying experience. She has license to say whatever she wants to. As for the medical treatment she received, given the horrendous situation for medical care in Gaza, probably she got better treatment than most. 

 

"Many healthcare facilities have been destroyed by Israeli offensives, with only 25 percent of hospitals functioning and only seven of twenty-two UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) health centers operating. Doctors have reported needing to give cesareans without anesthetic and being forced to conduct emergency hysterectomies without the proper medical equipment."

https://www.cfr.org/blog/women-week-details-october-7-reveal-sexual-violence

 

She was operated on by a vet. And as I understand it, this was much earlier in the war, when things weren't that bad yet. I expect this was more to do with Hamas need to keep her location secret, and not caring much.

8 minutes ago, placeholder said:

I don't blame her one bit for what she said. She went through a horrifying experience. She has license to say whatever she wants to. As for the medical treatment she received, given the horrendous situation for medical care in Gaza, probably she got better treatment than most. 

 

"Many healthcare facilities have been destroyed by Israeli offensives, with only 25 percent of hospitals functioning and only seven of twenty-two UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) health centers operating. Doctors have reported needing to give cesareans without anesthetic and being forced to conduct emergency hysterectomies without the proper medical equipment."

https://www.cfr.org/blog/women-week-details-october-7-reveal-sexual-violence

As for the medical treatment she received, given the horrendous situation for medical care in Gaza, probably she got better treatment than most.

 

What are you talking about she was operated on by a vet with no anesthetic whose only words to her were "You will not make it out alive" 

 

She was taken hostage on the 7th Oct, shot in the arm by one of the terrorists on her way to Gaza, spent 2 days in a room, not a hospital ward before then getting treatment. Nearly all if not all hospitals were fully operational then.

 

"Better treatment than most"    .....jeez

7 minutes ago, Morch said:

 

She was operated on by a vet. And as I understand it, this was much earlier in the war, when things weren't that bad yet. I expect this was more to do with Hamas need to keep her location secret, and not caring much.

Fair point.

A hostage that was rescued by the IDF sends a message of hope.