Former Hamas Hostage Mia Schem Reveals Traumatic Experience and Health Impact

In her first interviews since her release, Schem recounts her 54-day captivity and the development of epilepsy due to constant fear of rape.

Mia Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman, was held hostage by Hamas for 54 days and has spoken out about her traumatic experience in her first interviews since her release.
Schem developed epilepsy during her captivity, which she attributes to the constant fear of being raped by her captors.
Schem was abducted from a music festival and was shot in the arm during her abduction. She was operated on without anesthesia by a veterinarian in Gaza.
Schem was held in a small room and guarded 24 hours a day by her kidnappers, including a married man whose wife often joined him. She was not fed for days at a time.
There are nearly 130 hostages still remaining in captivity in Gaza.